Re: [MLUG] Open Document Format in Minnesota?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Jerry Gamblin wrote:

> Here are two articles:
>
> http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/11/26/romney_administration_reviewing_trips_made_by_technology_chief/
> http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/26/225231
>
> You can use google and find one that you think is unbiased yourself if 
> you dont like these. What it boils down to is that OSS supporters paid 
> for trips to Japan, Brazil, Ottawa, San Francisco while he was backing a 
> huge move to OSS. You cant tell me that on the surface it isn't a 
> conflict of interest.  It is very similar to the golf junkets a senator 
> is serving time in jail for right now.


Thanks.  Of course this was not mentioned in the article you sent earlier.

Maybe you think it is OK for senators to be paid by lobbyists.  I don't 
think it is OK, especially not when there is a quid-pro-quo -- that is 
definitely illegal.  What happened with Quinn was definitely *not* similar 
to the case with Delay.

It sounds like Quinn was asked to speak because he was in favor of open 
standards and not the reverse.  I find it remarkable that you seem to want 
to impugn the man's integrity.  Why?

I'll tell you this:  If they paid his travel and room and board, and gave 
him nothing else (e.g., no honorarium), he wasn't being bribed and he was 
doing them a favor and not vice-versa.  According to the article he gave 
to talks at conferences for which his travel was not even paid!

It looks to me like Quinn was pretty honest and even heroic and he was 
attacked violently and unfairly.  What do you expect?

Mike

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