Microsoft will turn Chile abstention into a Yes?
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| Despite the 217 comments tabled by Chile in September, the Microsoft puppets
| are well active in the Committee and will vote this Tuesday to turn the vote
| of the country from an abstention to a Yes. You can expect more of those
| things happening until the end of March.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-35106/microsoft-will-turn-chile-abstention-into-a-yes
Related:
The day Chile was Bought by Microsoft
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| Just today, a secret agreement between MS and the Chilean Government came to
| light. In it, every citizen was sold as a potential user of a Windows Live
| Spaces model where every SSN is linked to, overbypassing any privacy term and
| cashing Bill some bucks. It wouldn't be so awful to all if that agreement
| wasn't aprooved yet (Spanish follows).
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http://digg.com/microsoft/The_day_Chile_was_Bought_by_Microsoft
Chilean Mapuches in language row with Microsoft
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| Mapuche Indians in Chile are trying to take global software giant Microsoft
| to court in a legal battle which raises the question of whether anyone
| can ever "own" the language they speak.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20061123:MTFH14339_2006-11-23_14-39-39_N22384122&type=comktNews&rpc=44
This came after:
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| The Chilean government's high school Internet access network Enlaces
| plans to install Linux Relevant Products/Services from Sybase ASE Linux
| Express Edition ? FREE operating systems in 600 schools, after a trial
| project with Edulinux in 25 establishments, local newspaper El Mercurio
| reported.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/40330001422084057.html (broken)
And:
ElMostrador.cl: Chilean Public Pension System (INP) Switches to Linux
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| The institution will save more than 67,000 USD per year in license fees.
|
| Two of every three Chileans either pay or get paid by this state-owned
| institution, which has 63 offices and ten corporate buildings all over the
| country, using more than 1500 computers.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-08-01-005-20-NW-DP
Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committee
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| In a memo sent following his last meeting as head of the working group on
| WG1, which is handling Microsoft’s application to make the Word format an ISO
| standard as ECMA 376, outgoing Governor Martin Bryan (above), an expert on
| SGML and XML, accused the company of stacking his group.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1777
Dysfunctional ISO - Courtesy of Microsoft
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/12/dysfunctional-iso-courtesy-of-microsoft.html
Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format
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| Is this just a random coincidence? The median of the CPI index of the above
| mentioned 70 countries is 3.95. Of the most corrupted half (CPI index less
| than 3.95) 23 or 77% voted for approval (approval or approval with comments)
| and 7 or 23% for disapproval; 5 abstained. Of the least corrupted half (CPI
| index more than 3.95) 13 or 54% voted for approval and 11 or 46% voted for
| disapproval; 11 abstained - see the table below.
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http://www.effi.org/blog/kai-2007-09-05.en.html
Microsoft accused of more OOXML standards fiddling
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| However the 11 new countries are refusing to say how they will vote. These
| include Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Ecuador, Jamaica, Lebanon, Malta, Pakistan,
| Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela. Most people seem to think
| that these have been put there by Vole to make sure the standard gets pushed
| through.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42106
Ecuador Tax Agency Closes Microsoft Branch Offices For 7 Days
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| "We have twice requested balances, payment reports and complete tax
| information, but the company hasn't given it to us, so in accordance with our
| laws we have proceeded with the closure," the SRI official in charge of the
| proceeding said.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200710041610DOWJONESDJONLINE000810_FORTUNE5.htm
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