Red Hat Opens Lobbying Office Near DC

wiredog writes "From Government Computer News comes this story about Red Hat's new lobbying office near Washington DC, and mentions that RHEL 4 will have Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4 certification."

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this leaves me perplexed

[m2bord]

on the one hand...i like the fact that there is a company there that can counter microsoft's lobby.

but on the otherside...i firmly believe that this is what is so horribly wrong with our government.

lobbying by corporations seems to have made lawmakers more responsible to the lobbyist rather than the constituent