Following Bill Gates' Linux Attack Money Publication: LXer Date: Dec 30 2005 Reporter: Tom Adelstein Recently, we witnessed the power of Microsoft's political machine when one of the champions of free and open source software, Peter Quinn resigned as CIO of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In my opinion, Microsoft just blinked and everything went south. Other writers have also commented on the chain of events in Massachusetts. For example, Andy Undegrove writes a farewell piece in his blog to the maligned public servant. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols also writes an article about this issue in Microsoft Wins, Open Standards Lose. Steven writes: "CIO Peter Quinn's story tells us that if you go up against Microsoft, you can expect everything and the kitchen sink to be thrown at you." Read full article Read full article in new window See other articles by Tom Adelstein See other articles published by LXer Today's headlines Headlines for Dec 30, 2005
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