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[News] [Rival] Hypocritical Microsoft Still Hopes to Intercept Own Sin

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Hypocritical Microsoft Still Hopes to Intercept Own Sin
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:52:36 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Google-DoubleClick Deal To Pass FTC's Review This Week?

,----[ Quote ]
| On complaints from Microsoft and privacy advocates, antitrust lawyers 
| discounted those issues as not germane to the FTC's premerger authority, the 
| story says.   
`----

http://biz.yahoo.com/paidcontent/071203/1_317489_id.html?.v=1

Despite Microsoft's $6 billion acqisition, desire to buy DoubleClick, and this
new one huge takeover:

Vivendi Cuts Deal to Take Control of Activision

http://www.smartmoney.com/onedaywonder/index.cfm?story=20071203&afl=yahoo

SAP Gains On Rumors MSFT Might (Again) Want To Buy It

,----[ Quote ]
| I doubt the integration would be any less complicated in 2008. Oh, and for 
| the record: SAP has a market cap of $62 billion; figuring in a nice premium, 
| you would be talking $80 billion or so for an acquisition. Possible, but a 
| serious long shot.   
`----

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2007/12/03/sap-gains-on-rumors-msft-might-again-want-to-buy-it/?mod=yahoobarrons


Related:

News Analysis: Microsoft General Counsel on DoubleClick and Antitrust

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| This raises a very important question - why didn't Microsoft match Google's 
| $3.1 billion offer. Smith would not comment on this, but I can report from 
| very good sources that in fact the company did offer to match it, and was 
| willing to pay even more to insure that Google did not corner the online ad
| market. But for whatever reasons, the private equity firm that owned the 
| majority of DoubleClick's shares decided to go with Google.
| 
| [...]
| 
| I asked Smith about the irony of Microsoft asking the government to
| support it on antitrust. His response was interesting.
`----

http://battellemedia.com/archives/003561.php


Microsoft Befriends Google's Foes

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| After a government- and monopoly-inspired period in which Microsoft had
| to pretend to be a gentle force for global good, the company is being
| forced to return to its ruthless roots. Ironically, it is doing this
| in part by decrying the unfair practices of a competitor and
| shamelessly sucking up to the Establishment.
`----

http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/06/microsoft-google-blodget-tech-cx_hb_0306blodget.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/3bewws


Google to pay $3.1 bln for DoubleClick ad business

,----[ Quote ]
| "Google could not let this go to Microsoft and therefore paid what 
| they needed to pay," Rohan said.
`----

http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/070413/doubleclick_google.html


The INQ guide to the baleful side of PR bunnies

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| Burson M might have tried to advise against it, saying if the news gets out 
| it will make Microsoft look sleazier than it already looks. Or the guys at 
| Burson M might have just fallen over on their backs without a murmur. Now the 
| cack has hit the fan, they'll probably get another good kicking from the Vole 
| because the primary function of a PR is not only to be a flack, but to take 
| the flak when the client is too frit to accept the blame.     
`----

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42582


Microsoft Taps Lobbyist on Google Buyout

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| On Monday, Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft closed a $6 billion deal to buy 
| digital marketing company aQuantive that would challenge Google in the online 
| ad business.  
| 
| The lobbying disclosure form was posted online Thursday by the Senate's 
| public records office. 
| 
| Under a federal law enacted in 1995, lobbyists are required to disclose 
| activities that could influence members of the executive and legislative 
| branches. They must register with Congress within 45 days of being hired or 
| engaging in lobbying.   
`----

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070815/microsoft_lobbying.html?.v=1


Legislators Wimp Out on Open Document Format Bills

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| As both Peter Quinn and Louis Gutierrez both found out, trying to 
| make responsible standards-related decisions where huge sums of 
| vendor revenues are at stake is scarcely a career-enhancing pastime. 
| CIOs should be entitled to stay out of harm's way, and try their best 
| to serve the public's interests the best they can. Where that can't be 
| done, legislatures should protect them, and keep them safe from the 
| types of unwarranted threats and attacks that Carol Sliwa reported 
| on in a series of public-records request-based stories at ComputerWorld 
| last December.
| 
| [...]
| 
| After the impressive lobbying assault mounted over the past six 
| months against open document format legislation, I expect you 
| won't be hearing of many state IT departments taking the baton 
| back from their legislators. 
|  
| And who can blame them? If they tried, it wouldn't be likely to 
| be anything as harmless as an open document format that would 
| bite them in the butt.
`----

http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070610175856704


Microsoft trounces pro-ODF forces in state battles over open document formats

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| In a resounding victory for Microsoft Corp., bills seeking to mandate the 
| use of open document formats by government agencies have been defeated 
| in five states, and only a much-watered-down version of such legislation 
| was signed into law in a sixth state.
`----

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9022878


Packing The Court At The ISO?

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|      ...P member countries ('participating member' countries) sending 
|     representatives, and I am interested to note the majority of
|     their representatives are, as individuals, also Microsoft employees.
| 
| [...]
| 
| How can they not see that OOXML (ECMA 376) is unwanted by anyone outside of 
| Microsoft? How about it Brian Jones? Are you really so desperate that you
| have to resort to that?
`----

http://lnxwalt.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/packing-the-court-at-the-iso/


Q&A: Former Mass. CIO feels 'bittersweet pride' after battles with Microsoft,
legislature

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| As CIO of Massachusetts from February to November last year, Louis 
| Gutierrez had to endure most of the brunt of Microsoft Corp.'s political 
| wrath over a state policy calling for the adoption of the Open Document 
| Format for Office Applications, or ODF -- a rival to the software vendor's 
| Office Open XML file format.
`----

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012760&source=rss_news50


,----[ Quote ]
|    Quinn:  Almost to a person, to anybody involved or who knows about
|    the ODF issue, they attributed the story to Microsoft, right, wrong
|    or otherwise. Senator Pacheco may be a bully but I do not believe he
|    is disingenious and would stoop to such a tactic. Senator Pacheco and
|    Secretary Galvin's office remain very heavily influenced by the
|    Microsoft money and its lobbyist machine, as witnessed by their
|    playbook and words, in my opinion.
`----

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060119232859729


MA Governor-Elect Names MS Anti-ODF Lobbyist to Technology Advisory Group

http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20061128161343183


Bonnie Garcia - Enter the FUD Brigade

,----[ Quote ]
| In opposing California AB 1668, Bonnie spreads a heaping 
| helping of fear, uncertainty and doubt by discussing 
| wholly unrelated IT projects that failed.
`----

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpfu7pwabLY


Bill seeks study of open document formats in New York

,----[ Quote ]
| A bill introduced in the New York state legislature on 
| Wednesday would require the state government's IT director 
| to study the issue of using open document formats within 
| agencies, although the proposal doesn't seek to 
| mandate an immediate or long-term move to such formats.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Microsoft also is seeking the ISO stamp of approval for 
| Office Open XML, the default file format in its Office 
| 2007 software. But the software vendor has fought 
| the open formats bills in every state as part of an 
| effort to protect its Office franchise.
`----

http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1431489376&rid=-50


Politics and tech companies: follow the money

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061110-8194.html


Years of deadlock on EU patent bring some new thinking

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/08/business/patents.php

,----[ Quote ]
| "A source that deals with the company said unofficially that Gates
| proposed Microsoft's Digital Rights Management technology as a national
| standard to fight piracy at the governmental level."
`----

http://www.kommersant.com/p719683/r_528/


Leaked letter warns of open source 'threat to eco-system'

http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=7109


Study: open source needs official support; Lobbyist disagrees with "flawed"
conclusions

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061017-8011.html


Report Says Nonprofits Sold Influence to Abramoff

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101200889.html


Open Source Foes In Bed With Abramoff

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/12/2036223&from=rss


EU official joins consultancy serving Microsoft

http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-10-03T134311Z_01_L03693228_RTRIDST_0_TECH-MICROSOFT-OFFICIAL.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna


US ambassador to the EU was former Microsoft lobbyist

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34706


US politicians go to bat for Microsoft

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/26/microsoft_eu_political_lobbying/


Changing the Report, After the Vote

http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/09/01/commission

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