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Microsoft’s ‘Men in Black’ Kill Florida Open Standards Legislation

[ Thanks to lh8
for this link. ]

“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.

“Here’s the text the Microsoft-paid lobbyists didn’t
like…”

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