What would you call outpouring a donation almost equivelent to the cumulative total of your past five years of donating to one state on the eve of their voting to mandate open standards?
Trying to buy a state, of course. And who better to purchase off state senators with *ahem* charitable donations than Microsoft.
After all, their competition actually employs people in the state.
As usual Andy Updegrove connects all the essential points of the story with a minimum of opinion and pointed observations. He’s doing a bang up job with the ODF roll out in Mass and Microsoft’s tooth-and-nail tactics to get it delayed or suborned, so give him a read if you’re over there or have an interest in Microsoft vs. open standards.
Consortiuminfo.org - ODF, MS and MASS: Now you see the dots (and now you don’t)
