El que fan els diners! -----Forwarded Message----- > From: Matthias Kirschner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Microsoft paid $10m directly to the top official of the CCIA > Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 12:35:57 +0100 > > Hi all, > take a look at this; Microsoft bought the CCIA out of the antitrust case > between Microsoft and the European Commission, where FSFE represents the > SAMBA team and both together support the Commission [1]. > > As Financial Times [2] and The Register [3] reported, they paid almost > $10m directly to the top official of the Computer and Communications > Industry Association (CCIA) as part of its settlement with the trade > group. > > The last paragraph [3]: > > In a statement at the time, which makes more sense now, Ed Black said: > "Life is a constant reordering of priorities, and for important and > pragmatic reasons we are choosing to move on with regard to this matter. > Neither I, nor CCIA, can recant the many things we have said and filed > relating to Microsoft. Although we know and value the important role we > have played on this matter over the years, there are other current and > emerging matters which demand our attention." > > If we were ever in the position of actually having $10m available for > legal cases, we would not have to lose sleep about how to finance our > lawsuits in defence of Free Software anymore. In fact, had Novell just > given 1% of the extra they received because of our involvement, we would > already be fine. > > Unfortunately it seems you are only paid for _not_ doing things. > > Best wishes, > Matze > > [1] http://fsfeurope.org/projects/ms-vs-eu/ > [2] http://news.ft.com/cms/s/92c6495a-3dbd-11d9-abe0-00000e2511c8.html > [3] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/24/microsoft_makes_millionaire/ > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Discussion mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion -- /********************************** ********* Xavier Amatriain ******** ****** Music Technology Group ***** ** IUA- Universitat Pompeu Fabra ** ****** www.iua.upf.es/~xamat ****** ***********************************/
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