[XCSSA] Fwd: ODF in Texas? Look what happened in Florida...

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Subject: [alg] ODF in Texas?  Look what happened in Florida...
Date: Tuesday 17 April 2007 12:42
From: Joe Barr <joe@pjprimer.com>
To: "The Austin (TX) Linux and General Discussion Mailing List" 
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http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/16/2019244


It was just a bit of text advocating open data formats that was slipped
into a Florida State Senate bill at the last minute with no fanfare, but
within 24 hours three Microsoft-paid lobbyists, all wearing black suits,
were pressuring members of the Senate Committee on Governmental
Operations (COGO) to remove the words they didn't like from Senate bill
1974.



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