{"id":10108,"date":"2011-09-07T15:21:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T15:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/09\/07\/wikileaks-us-government-agents\/"},"modified":"2011-09-07T15:21:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T15:21:28","slug":"wikileaks-us-government-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/07\/wikileaks-us-government-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikileaks: US Government Agents = Microsoft Sales Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>UNCLAS SARAJEVO 001879 <\/p>\n<p>SIPDIS <\/p>\n<p>COMMERCE FOR 4232\/ITA\/MAC\/EUR (BURGESS AND SAVICH)<br \/>\nDEPARTMENT PLEASE PASS TO USTR (MORROW, YANG)<br \/>\nDEPARTMENT FOR EUR\/SCE, EEB\/IPE, EUR\/PPD (HANNAN),<br \/>\nEUR\/PPD-PA,IIP\/S<br \/>\nTREASURY FOR LINDQUIST<br \/>\nCOMMERCE PLEASE PASS TO MCCAFFREY AND SMITH AT USPTO<br \/>\nJUSTICE FOR CARL ALEXANDRE<br \/>\nMOSCOW FOR REGIONAL IPR ATTACHE <\/p>\n<p>E.O. 12958: N\/A<br \/>\nTAGS: ECIN KIPR BK<br \/>\nSUBJECT: BOSNIA: MICROSOFT AND PM SPIRIC SIGN STRATEGIC<br \/>\nPARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT <\/p>\n<p>REF: SARAJEVO 1351 <\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00b61. On December 18, the BiH Council of Ministers and Microsoft finally signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement for access to legal Microsoft applications for all state-level government ministries.  Prime Minister Nikola Spiric signed<br \/>\nthe agreement on behalf of the BiH Government.  The agreement<br \/>\nobligates the BiH Government to use licensed software, but is<br \/>\nonly the first step in strengthening the state government&#8217;s<br \/>\nintellectual property regime.  Microsoft will now begin<br \/>\nnegotiations with BiH to purchase licenses for the software<br \/>\napplications under the state&#8217;s purview.  This marks a huge success for the U.S. Embassy, which has been working with state-level officials for three years to push for action to ban pirated and unlicensed software from ministry offices.<br \/>\n(Note: Federation and RS-entity governments signed separate<br \/>\nstrategic partnership agreements with Microsoft in 2006.  End<br \/>\nnote.)<br \/>\nENGLISH<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNCLAS SARAJEVO 001879 SIPDIS COMMERCE FOR 4232\/ITA\/MAC\/EUR (BURGESS AND SAVICH) DEPARTMENT PLEASE PASS TO USTR (MORROW, YANG) DEPARTMENT FOR EUR\/SCE, EEB\/IPE, EUR\/PPD (HANNAN), EUR\/PPD-PA,IIP\/S TREASURY FOR LINDQUIST COMMERCE PLEASE PASS TO MCCAFFREY AND SMITH AT USPTO JUSTICE FOR CARL ALEXANDRE MOSCOW FOR REGIONAL IPR ATTACHE E.O. 12958: N\/A TAGS: ECIN KIPR BK SUBJECT: BOSNIA: MICROSOFT &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/07\/wikileaks-us-government-agents\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wikileaks: US Government Agents = Microsoft Sales Staff<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2D2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}