[PLUG] Fwd: [ilugd] [X-POST] Microsoft lobbying the Government through ``friendly'' NGOs

[sudhanwa Jogalekar]

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From: Raj Mathur <raju at linux-delhi.org>
Date: Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:54 PM
Subject: [ilugd] [X-POST] Microsoft lobbying the Government through
``friendly'' NGOs
To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list <ilugd at lists.linux-delhi.org>,
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  My my, hey hey, OOXML is here to stay
    (with apologies to Neil Young)

 And if you don't believe that then your friendly neighbourhood NGO is
 only to willing to try to convince your Government on behalf of one of
 its benefactors, MS.  Now I'm beginning to think that $1.4B was too
 little :)

 http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/OpenStandards/MsNgoLobby

 Also made it to Groklaw somehow.

 Regards,

 -- Raju
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