Re: [discuss] Massechusetts Senate Meets on Halloween...

2005-11-02 Thread Sam Hiser
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 02:41 -0500, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > Be careful about getting dragged into the M$ alternate definitions of > English words. There currently is no *standard* in use in Massachusetts. > The current binary MS formats may certainly be ubiquitous, but are > anything but standar

Re: [discuss] Massechusetts Senate Meets on Halloween...

2005-11-01 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Be careful about getting dragged into the M$ alternate definitions of English words. There currently is no *standard* in use in Massachusetts. The current binary MS formats may certainly be ubiquitous, but are anything but standard. There are variations for each version of each package on eac

Re: [discuss] Massechusetts Senate Meets on Halloween...

2005-11-01 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:12:27 -0700 Robin Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sam Hiser wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 09:00 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: > > > >>Sam Hiser wrote: > >> > >>>http://samhiser.blogspot.com/2005/10/commonwealth-senate-meets-on- > >holloween.html>> > > I just thought o

Re: [discuss] Massechusetts Senate Meets on Halloween...

2005-11-01 Thread Wesley Parish
Quoting Robin Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sam Hiser wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 09:00 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: > > > >>Sam Hiser wrote: > >> > >>>http://samhiser.blogspot.com/2005/10/commonwealth-senate-meets-on-holloween.html > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >>To me it sounds like some people are

Re: [discuss] Massechusetts Senate Meets on Halloween...

2005-11-01 Thread Wesley Parish
Quoting Lars D. Noodén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Robin Laing wrote: > [snip] > > I just thought of something. Wasn't Microsoft's first document against > Linux > > with FUD called the Halloween paper or something like that. :) > [snip] > > They should be here, but have very rece

Re: [discuss] Massechusetts Senate Meets on Halloween...

2005-11-01 Thread Dan Kegel
Sam Hiser wrote: http://samhiser.blogspot.com/2005/10/commonwealth-senate-meets-on-holloween.html Transcript, summary, and audio at: http://www.consortiuminfo.org/newsblog/blog.php?ID=1696 -- Trying to get a job as a c++ developer? See http://kegel.com/academy/getting-hired.html ---

Re: [discuss] Massechusetts Senate Meets on Halloween...

2005-11-01 Thread Lars D . Noodén
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Robin Laing wrote: [snip] I just thought of something. Wasn't Microsoft's first document against Linux with FUD called the Halloween paper or something like that. :) [snip] They should be here, but have very recently moved. http://www.opensource.org/halloween/ They

Re: [discuss] Massechusetts Senate Meets on Halloween...

2005-11-01 Thread Robin Laing
Sam Hiser wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 09:00 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: Sam Hiser wrote: http://samhiser.blogspot.com/2005/10/commonwealth-senate-meets-on-holloween.html To me it sounds like some people are concerned about losing some election funding from Microsoft more than what is bes

Re: [discuss] Massechusetts Senate Meets on Halloween...

2005-11-01 Thread Sam Hiser
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 11:23 -0500, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > The governor's role is still unclear. MS is probably working on him > heavily. Not to worry. He's a Bain Consultant: smart, gets open standards, knows precisely what MS is up to. I'd call him impervious to their influence. The more imp

Re: [discuss] Massechusetts Senate Meets on Halloween...

2005-11-01 Thread Lars D . Noodén
The governor's role is still unclear. MS is probably working on him heavily. IIRC The other year in Oregon, some open source (in contrast to this open standard) legislation was derailed in committee by the chair(?) taking it off the agenda without explanation. -Lars Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROT

Re: [discuss] Massechusetts Senate Meets on Halloween...

2005-11-01 Thread Robin Laing
Sam Hiser wrote: http://samhiser.blogspot.com/2005/10/commonwealth-senate-meets-on-holloween.html To me it sounds like some people are concerned about losing some election funding from Microsoft more than what is best for their constituents. -- Robin Laing --

[discuss] Massechusetts Senate Meets on Halloween...

2005-10-31 Thread Sam Hiser
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