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Re: Microsoft's 'Men in Black' kill Florida open standards legislation

__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Wednesday 18 April 2007 16:24 \__

> 
>>
>> They have been doing this forever. Nice to see them getting caught by
>> journalists.
> 
> Actually, the story I heard at the time of the DOJ investigation of
> Microsoft was that prior to that action, Microsoft had not bothered
> with lobbying.  They certainly changed their policies after that,
> however.  Also started destroying emails.  Learned a lot of lessons.

Destroying E-mails does not make it ethical or innocent.

'---[ Quote ]
| In May 2004, Judge J. Frederick Motz ordered Microsoft to
| investigate Burst.com's claim that, in 2000, Allchin ordered
| Microsoft employees to destroy email after 30 days and not to
| archive their email, suggesting that this deletion policy
| might be an effort to eliminate material that would later be
| damaging in court. This case was settled out of court in March
| 2005, with Microsoft agreeing to pay Burst.com $60 million
| for nonexclusive rights to Burst.com's media player software.
`----

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Allchin

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