Microsoft's 'Men in Black' kill Florida open standards legislation

[Mac the Knife]

"It was just a bit of text advocating open data formats that was slipped into a Florida State Senate bill at the last minute with no fanfare, but within 24 hours three Microsoft-paid lobbyists, all wearing black suits, were pressuring members of the Senate Committee on Governmental Operations (COGO) to remove the words they didn't like from Senate bill 1974."

http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/16/2019244