TheOpenAnalyst

On February 26, some organization called Wikileaks (just what you think it means) proudly outed an alleged Microsoft (MSFT) front group’s alleged comments on the alleged working draft of an alleged European Union (EU) workgroup on open source software. I have no idea if any of the allegations is true, but the pomposity of Wikileaks and the poor quality of the document, whatever its source, provide a little humor in these dark economic times.

Wikileaks says it only outs documents with “political, diplomatic, ethical or historical significance.” If this document–full of the usual EU nonsense mispositioning open source software–is of any significance, it demonstrates how low politics, diplomacy, ethics and history have sunk. The document is full of comments of all types so it is not clear which comments allegedly come from the alleged Microsoft front group, called the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT). (For the record ACT is listed as a K-Street Washington, D.C. lobbyist funded by eBay (EBAY), Microsoft, Oracle (ORCL), Orbitz (OWW), Verisign (VRSN) and–according to its web site–3000 other companies.)

More EU Open Source Software Allegations Against Microsoft — Seeking Alpha

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