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Last Stand before Mass Exodus

March 20, 2009 By lasthorseman

The Obama Deception Can not recommend it more highly. http://video.google.com/videop... See you all at Sachsenhausen. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 9/11, aig, c4, global-warming, m$m, microsoft, net-neutrality, nsa, suitcase-nuke

Why you should care about Microsoft and their OOXML

July 10, 2007 By dweir

OOXML is Microsoft's spec. It was not developed out of the goodness of MS; it was done only because they thought they would lose market share.  It is riddled with so many errors that they have had to stack with their own lackeys the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: microsoft, open-government

Patrick/Murray Technology Working Group Takes on ODF and Microsoft

December 6, 2006 By rit

The Patrick/Murray transition team Technology Working Group (that's a mouth-full) has an online community meeting planned for December 11th @ 7:00pm on BMG.  How about we start pulling together a list of topics to cover?The diary on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: massachusetts, meeting, microsoft, murray, odf, patrick, technology, transition, working-group

Will Open Source Software Get a Fair Shot in Patrick’s Administration?

November 30, 2006 By lynne

So to have a Microsoft PR guy [who was known to have shilled for MS] on the team is a little tricky here.I am heavily for open source software. I've used Star Office and it's a good program (though I do have MS Office myself). In fact, back … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: microsoft, odf, open-document-format, open-source-movement

Open Document, Insert Foot: Explosive interview with former MA CIO Peter Quinn

January 25, 2006 By Charley on the MTA

We've been following with interest the story of former MA Chief Information Officer Peter Quinn,  who was the point man behind the Commonwealth's attempt to liberate itself from Microsoft's monopoly by implementing "open" standards on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: galvin, massachusetts, microsoft, odf, open-source, quinn

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