Thanks for the links. That's sad news that I've been expecting for some
time there in Turku (aka Åbo) and also an indication about how the MS
political movement might react to threats in other regions such as
Massachusetts.
The press in most countries, unfortunately, has been a little more than
passively supporting the M$ agenda to varying degrees, though nothing
outright active enough to call them on. It's a much harder situation next
door in Sweden where the ideology has taken a much stronger grip.
For context, YLE is largely responsible for all of Finnish broadcasting.
That's not quite accurate, but close enough.
A disturbing bit of background on the Jungner case is that some very
experienced, very qualified candidates were passed over for the job and
the appointment of Jungner was apparently steamrolled in at an odd time.
Somewhat more details here:
http://www.hbl.fi/cgi-bin/mediaweb?Newsp=hbl&Depa=politik&Date=041119&Model=juttu.html&Story=07345781.txt
In order for OOo to prevail in governments and state agencies in more than
a niche market, it may be necesssary to address the issue of "kotiryssä"
in governments. For example, Norway and others have at least one each
highly placed former exec or lobbyist. There are also the offical
ambassadors, whose role is less a subject of speculation:
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 Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Marko Gronroos wrote:
... The previous holder of the post at Microsoft, Mikael Jungner (Social
Democrats), became CEO of Yle (Finland's national public service
broadcasting company)." ...
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