[NTLUG:Discuss] MicroSoft Goes Open?

[Kenneth Loafman]

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.

I do work with EFF, ACLU, and others on email campaigns and sometimes
phone campaigns.  It does no good without money to line their pockets.

...Ken