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

[Nishit Dave]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:45 PM, sudhanwa Jogalekar
<sudhanwa.com at gmail.com> wrote:
> Forwarded message:
>  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>,
>  fsf-friends at mm.gnu.org.in,
>  linux-india-general-owner at lists.sourceforge.net
>
>
>   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
>   --

Do you think the people here care?  Half of them come here to get some
tech advice, and move on.  The collective voice of the rest is too
feeble to be heard.  This is futile breast-beating unless all of us
come together and start a movement.