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http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,52973,00.html

   A Microsoft spokesman confirmed that Microsoft provides funding to the
   Alexis de Tocqueville Institution.

   We support a diverse array of public policy organizations with which we
   share a common interest or public policy agenda such as the de
   Tocqueville Institution," the spokesman wrote in an e-mail.

   Microsoft did not respond to requests for comment on whether the
   company directly sponsored the debate paper. De Tocqueville Institute
   president Ken Brown and chairman Gregory Fossedal refused to comment on
   whether Microsoft sponsored the report.

   "It is not our policy to comment on supporters; I'm sure you can
   understand. From this you should not infer that information you have is
   correct or not correct; we just don't comment," Fossedal wrote in an
   e-mail.

Regards,
Adam

Can I smell over-heated paper shredders?  I think I can :-)

The problem with being a supporter of M$ is that sometimes M$ likes to saw
through the support...

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On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 01:00:57 +1200,

Quote:>http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,52973,00.html

>   A Microsoft spokesman confirmed that Microsoft provides funding to the
>   Alexis de Tocqueville Institution.

>   We support a diverse array of public policy organizations with which we
>   share a common interest or public policy agenda such as the de
>   Tocqueville Institution," the spokesman wrote in an e-mail.

>   Microsoft did not respond to requests for comment on whether the
>   company directly sponsored the debate paper. De Tocqueville Institute
>   president Ken Brown and chairman Gregory Fossedal refused to comment on
>   whether Microsoft sponsored the report.

>   "It is not our policy to comment on supporters; I'm sure you can
>   understand. From this you should not infer that information you have is
>   correct or not correct; we just don't comment," Fossedal wrote in an
>   e-mail.

>Regards,
>Adam

The link to the Garner site hints at an interesting report
that perhaps Erik should read ...
http://www3.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=106790
+*  "Microsoft Breakup Would Reduce Malicious Content Impact"
+(SPA-11-3793 ). Over the long term, the breakup and behavior
+remedies proposed for Microsoft would result in increased
+firewalling between PC applications and the Windows OS, thereby
+reducing the security exposure to malicious content. By John
+Pescatore and Neil MacDonald

Regards,
David Mohring - Anybody here a Gartner client?

Quote:> http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,52973,00.html

>    A Microsoft spokesman confirmed that Microsoft provides funding to the
>    Alexis de Tocqueville Institution.

>    We support a diverse array of public policy organizations with which we
>    share a common interest or public policy agenda such as the de
>    Tocqueville Institution," the spokesman wrote in an e-mail.

Up until *very* recently, MS' corporate political donations
are about what you'd expect from wealthy Washingtonians:
lots of Sierra Club and Democratic Party, with Bill Clinton
being off the rightmost horizon.

Now all of a sudden they have "a common interest or public
policy agenda" with a bunch that makes Barry Goldwater look
like a Socialist.

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|  the strength to change the things I cannot accept, and the   |
|    cunning to hide the bodies of those who got in my way.     |

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Quote:> http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,52973,00.html

>    A Microsoft spokesman confirmed that Microsoft provides funding to the
>    Alexis de Tocqueville Institution.

No surprise really. And it would not really surprise me if Microsoft had
its part to play in the UnitedLinux "per-seat-licensing" rumours.

-Ilari
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