Re: Article: Document or else

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

The article cited in the original post described Microsoft's efforts as
attempting to head off fines resulting from antitrust rulings, not the
potential loss of government business.  It also referred to the US
Justice Dept as another agency looking over the company's shoulders.
So it appears that "legislation" was indeed involved in this instance,
though it does seem to me that had the EU and US governments 
just threatened to drop Microsoft from their lists of approved vendors
for software and ordered all their agencies to cease accepting 
documents in the proprietary formats it might have made more of 
an impression on the company than court rulings.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lou Quillio" <public -at- quillio -dot- com>