(Embrace, Extend, Assimilate or Exterminate)
http://boycottnovell.com/2009/07/20/microsoft-fcc-steven-vanroekel/
Microsoft ?Takes Over? the FCC
MANY FOSS PEOPLE ARE no friends of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) because the FCC is no friend of Free software. They went as far as public humiliation. Some recent FCC scandals aside (Professor Lessig wants them thrown out), the FCC repeatedly fails to carry out its job; business interests are sometimes blamed for bias, apathy, or sympathy towards offending companies which the FCC is there to regulate and punlish. So, it may as well be stated that the new Managing Director of the FCC is a Microsoft executive, who is changing hats.
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