EU Will Not Divulge Microsoft Contracts

Elektroschock writes "Marco Cappato, a Liberal member of the European Parliament, wanted to inspect the EU's contracts with Microsoft. His request was denied. '...the [divulging] of [this] information could jeopardize the protection of commercial interest of Microsoft.' Apparently the European Council sees no clear public interest in the release of such contractual material, and so 'the Secretariat general concludes that the protection of Microsoft's commercial interests, being one of the commercial partners of the European institutions, prevails on the [divulging] for the public interest.'"

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Typical Microsoft

[Finallyjoined!!!]

Whenever they do a deal with a government agency, or education authority, they insist on a Non Disclosure. That prevents the relevant Authority disclosing that they paid next to fuck all for Windows, but a shed-load for Orofice.