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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Has Just Bought Sweden (or Sweden's Slavery to Monopoly Abuse)

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Has Just Bought Sweden (or Sweden's Slavery to Monopoly Abuse)
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:24:40 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Microsoft managed to buy the vote of Sweden in ISO?

,----[ Quote ]
| When a friend of mine arrived, it was clear that it all was stuffing going on 
| from Microsoft side. All Microsoft partners in Sweden was at that meeting. 
| People against OOXML got an offer to leave the meeting without paying the fee 
| (not becoming a member). Everyone left, including IBM that thought it all was 
| a farse.    
`----

http://stupid.domain.name/node/382

It's not the first country that Microsoft buys. It also 'bought' Novell,
Xandros, and Linspire. Same stories in Germany, Colombia, and Portugal.

Moments ago I found the following news:

Microsoft to Boost Charity in India

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070827/india_microsoft_software_donation.html?.v=1

India decided it would vote “No”, but keep a close eye on what they do in
September. 

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