Not 'free market' advocate but front for Microsoft
Posted by: David Mohring
on July 25, 2003 07:18 PM
The so called 'free market' advocate organizations are nothing but a front for Microsoft created for the express purpose of limiting any competition with Microsoft.
The so called "Initiative for Software Choice" is squealing like a pig when it claims a piece of legislation might favor open source, but the Microsoft funded "Initiative for Software Choice" was founded to introduce totally anti-open source clauses into the same types of legislation. Read <A HREF="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26616.html" TITLE="theregister.co.uk">MS 'Software Choice' scheme a clever fraud</a theregister.co.uk> And <A HREF="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-949527.html" TITLE="com.com">MS leads lobby against open source</a com.com>
Also, the Association for Competitive Technology, an ISC member, is amongst the same family of Microsoft supported organizations which <A HREF="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134332634_microlob23.html" TITLE="nwsource.com">Faked letters from dead people</a nwsource.com>
Letters purportedly written by at least two dead people landed on the desk of Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff earlier this year, imploring him to go easy on Microsoft for its conduct as a monopoly. ... ATL was founded in 1999 as a spinoff of the Association for Competitive Technology,another pro-Microsoft group.
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Not 'free market' advocate but front for Microsoft
Posted by: David Mohring on July 25, 2003 07:18 PMThe so called "Initiative for Software Choice" is squealing like a pig when it claims a piece of legislation might favor open source, but the Microsoft funded "Initiative for Software Choice" was founded to introduce totally anti-open source clauses into the same types of legislation. Read <A HREF="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26616.html" TITLE="theregister.co.uk">MS 'Software Choice' scheme a clever fraud</a theregister.co.uk> And <A HREF="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-949527.html" TITLE="com.com">MS leads lobby against open source</a com.com>
Also, the Association for Competitive Technology, an ISC member, is amongst the same family of Microsoft supported organizations which <A HREF="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134332634_microlob23.html" TITLE="nwsource.com">Faked letters from dead people</a nwsource.com>
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