Re: [MLUG] Open Document Format in Minnesota?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Jerry Gamblin wrote:

> That might be the idealized meaning of the movement but in reality it
> was a very strong Anti-Microsoft move by the State CIO in
> Massachusetts atleast.
> Just so I am not accussed of picking sources here is a google search
> for Massachusetts and Linux.
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=Massachusetts+Linux

It might be anti-Microsoft for no other reason than that Microsoft is an 
extremely powerful company that was dominating computing choices in the 
state.  In other words, if he is in favor of freeing the state from 
corporate control, he'd have to be anti-Microsoft on some level.  Why else 
would he be against Microsoft?  To say that someone is anti-Microsoft 
makes it seem like they have a bias.


> Peter Quin has stepped down from the roll as CIO after it was found out 
> that he had taken numerous free trips to speaka bout OSS all over the 
> world.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_J._Quinn

That's not what it says there.  You make it sound like he did something 
wrong but the article says that he was "cleared of wrongdoing."  You also 
imply that he was receiving money from some source, but the article you 
cite only says that The Globe alleged that he was "misusing" public travel 
funds to attend IT conferences -- but what was their evidence for 
"misuse?"  Is the state CIO not supposed to attend IT conferences using 
state travel funds?

Mike

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