Along the theme of power grabs, the same company has begun appointing what seem to be consuls / ambassadors under the name National Technology Officer (NTO).
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/21/ms_nto/


-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
        Software patents kill innovation and harm all Net-based business.
        Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Marco Fioretti wrote:

"In the New Zealand Herald, Adam Gifford has written an article blasting Microsoft for burying the New Zealand Intellectual Property Office in paperwork. One example is Patent 525484, accepted by the office and now open for objections until the end of May, which says Microsoft invented and owns the process whereby a word-processing document stored in a single XML file may be manipulated by applications that understand XML."

Slashdot page:
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/03/15/0118201.shtml?tid=155&tid=109
Original article:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10115247

Ciao,
Marco


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