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Re: former Mass. CIO look back on tenure ..

__/ [ [H]omer ] on Monday 12 March 2007 23:43 \__

> Verily I say unto thee, that Doug Mentohl spake thusly:
>> former Mass. CIO look back on tenure ..
>> 
>> 'This was the first time I had ever seen a vendor involved in efforts to
>> re-charter the central IT agency, and I find that troubling'
>> 
>> 'You mean they weren't just attacking a policy, they were attacking the
>> agency that had developed the policy?'
>> 
>> 'It went to that next level.'
>> 
>> 'There is this whole theater of me keeping Brian Burke, [Microsoft's
>> Northeast] government affairs specialist, out of my office. That was
>> theater for saying that this type of activity must stop'
>> 
>> 'I certainly saw it as a deep threat to things that I care about: the
>> ability of government to act as an independent purchaser'
>> 
>> 'It's being perplexed as to why an American corporation would be behaving
>> this way with an American state'
>> 
>> 'the formats were recognized as being powerful, as being worthy of putting
>> into standards processes, of being unencumbered from threats of litigation
>> or patent infringement kind of issues'
>> 
>> 'I don't see particular value in the long-term coexistence of two separate
>> standards'
>> 
>> http://tinyurl.com/2kyars
>>
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012760&source=rss_news50
> 
> [Confused]
> 
> I thought the democratically elected House of Representatives governed
> the US, not Microsoft.
> 
> .----
> | No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation;
> | grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of
> | Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment
> | of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law
> | impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
> `----

This assumption is so 80s! Some links below.



,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft is labouring under a delusion. While the rest of the world
| thinks of it as a software company, it prefers to consider itself
| a government department. How else to see its latest scheme whereby,
| if you ignore its questions, it will report you to its private
| paid-for policemen at the Business Software Alliance?
`----

http://opinion.zdnet.co.uk/leader/0,1000002208,39285719,00.htm


Microsoft cracks down on UK licences 

,----[ Quote ]
| According to ComputerWorld, Vole has sent out a series of letters
| threatening legal action using its agents the Business
| Software Alliance (BSA).
| 
| Ram Dhaliwal, Microsoft's licensing programs manager in the
| UK said the move was to "spark off the engagement" with its customers.
`---- 

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37281


Microsoft plays Massachusetts Senate card

OpenDocument not a done deal yet

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32515



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
http://tinyurl.com/h47g3



US ambassador to the EU was former Microsoft lobbyist

,----[ Quote ]
| Before C. Boyden Gray was named as George Bush's number one person in
| Europe, he was a lawyer lobbying on behalf of Microsoft.
`----

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

,----[ Quote ]
| That agreement was nearly imperiled last weekend, though. Gerri
| Elliott, corporate vice president at Microsoft's Worldwide Public
| Sector division, sent an e-mail message to fellow commissioners
| Friday evening saying that she "vigorously" objected to a paragraph
| in which the panel embraced and encouraged the development of open
| source software and open content projects in higher education. 
`----

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


Politics and tech companies: follow the money

,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft took first place with $651,100 given out, while
| Hewlett-Packard gave only $185,550, and Gateway gave a paltry
| $2,000. Microsoft's donations certainly illustrate well the true
| size of the company and the extent of its political concerns.
`----

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


Years of deadlock on EU patent bring some new thinking

,----[ Quote ]
| When Bill Gates visits Brussels on Thursday to speak with
| government officials, software developers and customers, he
| plans to wade into one of Europe's longest-running, most
| fruitless debates: the pursuit of a unified patent system. 
| Gates, chairman of Microsoft, wants a simple system that will
| allow the world's largest software maker and other companies
| to protect their intellectual property in the European Union -
| and profit from licensing their patents.
`----

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/



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