Re: [MLUG] Open Document Format in Minnesota?

["Jerry Gamblin" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 1/22/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> 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 am in favor of using Cisco ASA framework as a standard
firewall/ids/ips solution for Missouri State Government.  Would it be
OK with you if Cisco flew me to Japan, Brazil and Europe to tell
people how great their product was and then came back and signed a
contract for $5-$10 million dollars for them to supply the technology
to the state?

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Thanks,

Jerry Gamblin

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