"The fact that the ODF policy threatened Microsoft’s business interests wasn’t lost on Eric Kriss, who had paved the way for its adoption while serving as a cabinet secretary under Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. In an interview, Kriss said he wasn’t surprised by “the aggressiveness” that Microsoft showed both publicly and privately in pursuing its opposition to the ODF policy."
"He was no stranger to technology himself. Following a prior stint as the state’s finance secretary, Kriss became CEO of MediQual Systems Inc., a database developer with products based on Microsoft’s FoxPro software. He left MediQual in 1998 to start his own business, Workmode Inc., which uses open-source software to develop Web-based business applications. He makes no secret of his belief that governments eventually will move to open source." <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=275352&intsrc=print_topic> <http://tinyurl.com/swq7r> Related articles: State’s Snub on File Formats Caught Microsoft by Surprise <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=275547&intsrc=print_topic> <http://tinyurl.com/sau2z> Microsoft Gets Help From Both Sides of the Aisle on Lobbying <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=275352&intsrc=print_topic> <http://tinyurl.com/vb9t8> _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
