Re: [MLUG] Open Document Format in Minnesota?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Jerry Gamblin wrote:


> > 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?


I think that is totally different from what he was doing.  It would be 
more like this:  You are an advocate for a type of router that is produced 
by 7 different companies.  You are invited to speak at a conference called 
Modern Networking that is being funded by 5 of those companies and also by 
12 others.  They give you nothing except that they reimburse your travel 
costs but you agree to do it anyway.

Search through this for "Score:5, I" and see what others were saying:

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/26/225231

Mike

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