[NTLUG:Discuss] MicroSoft Goes Open?

[Thomas Cameron (Red Hat)]

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Kenneth Loafman wrote:
| Thomas Cameron (Red Hat) wrote:
|> Kenneth Loafman wrote:
|> | Thomas Cameron (Red Hat) wrote:
|> |> Stan Gatchel wrote:
|> |> | What's your take on this? Big splash in the news yesterday.
|> |> |
|> |> | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/21/microsoft_goes_open/
|> |>
|> |> It's crap.  Odd how this announcement (one of MANY such announcements
|> |> which have never been followed through) comes just a week before the
|> |> OOXML vote, eh?
|> |>
|> |> This is a shameless attempt to sway that vote.  The world is just
|> |> Charlie Brown to Microsoft's Lucy.  The football is openness.
|> |>
|> |> Don't believe it for a moment.
|> |
|> | The ones that will believe it are our congresscritters.  That's scary!
|>
|> They're *your* congresscritters.  Enlighten them.  Part of
|> representative democracy is supposed to be the reps listening to their
|> constituents.
|
| If I had a lobbyist working for me and money to burn, they would listen,
| otherwise, your comment is quite naive.

Horse feathers.  I correspond with my reps pretty often.  I know my one
voice doesn't make that much of a difference, but I also know it does
make a difference.

| I do work with EFF, ACLU, and others on email campaigns and sometimes
| phone campaigns.

Good.  I do, too.

| It does no good without money to line their pockets.

That's a horribly jaded attitude, and not true in every case.  Money
certainly helps but it is not required.
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