Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Microsoft, DOD to build medical data warehouse
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>| Microsoft isn't doing this for the money. According to the article,
>| no funds are changing hands. But the company will get to work with data
>| -- a lot of it.
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> http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=309
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> Good comment:
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>| Microsoft isn't doing this for the money.
>|
>| No, but when they're done that's going to be an awful lot of DoD data
>| that won't be accessible without Microsoft's cooperation.
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Quite - they're getting themselves insinuated into key positions for the
future, such that they will be able to insist on payment merely for
accessing data - data which should be available to the appropriate
people through governance channels.
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