Groklaw has an interesting piece on the life and times of Peter Quinn, the man who tried to state that open formats are the right way to go for Boston. Apparently the politicians that receive money from Redmond didn’t like that and forced him out.

Moreover, there’s been a media smeer campaign against the man from some very unsavory journalists. It just goes to prove my point that you could have one person insert a few random sounding technical terms in a document, get a monkey to do the filler, and it’d end up better than half the crap at eweek.

You see, they’re under intense pressure to produce even if there’s nothing going on. They can’t sit back and editorialize (apparently) without bashing the heck out of someone. That’s what get’s the ad revenue, after all.

So even if you agree with the target you still have to state they’re an idiot to do “x”. In this case “go against Microsofts wishes”. Which sounds suspiciously like Microsoft is.. I dunno.. a monopoly abusing it’s position.

Who knows, maybe they’ll get an editor to look it over and pull the article. Miracles do happen. Grok the law