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Re: [News] Microsoft OOXML Corruption in Colombia, New York Investigates ODF as an Option

____/ Mark Kent on Friday 03 August 2007 13:53 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Have a look at this list:
>> 
>> http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-15406/the-vendor-also-invades-colombia
>> 
>> There's no article, so here's the gist:
>> 
>> Sock Puppets to VoteSock Puppets to Vote on Monopoly Enablement in Colombia?
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Microsoft sets the deck of card and ensures that (at least) 9 of out 14
>>| chairs in the technical committee are also in its pocket.
>> `----
>> 
>> http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/03/colombia-ooxml/
>> 
> 
> So what's the difference between the colombian drugs cartels and this
> particular software cartel, I wonder?
> 
>> New York to Study Electronic Document Interoperability
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance) has hailed New York for
>>| becoming the second state, along with Minnesota, to enact legislation
>>| requiring study of electronic document formats.
>> `----
>> 
>>
http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/application/11028/new-york-study-electronic-document-interoperability
>> 
>> Even journalists see that Microsoft is cheating, bullying, and breaking the
>> law.
>> 
>> http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/08/microsoft_rewri.html
> 
> I think that by finding this evidence, and republishing it repeatedly,
> in the end, it's perhaps enough to out-do the spin-machine.  Not all
> journalists have no principles, I'm sure.

This one reads my blog/s and unlike most journalists he actually /gets/ Free
software, even if he does not use it.

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