Maricopa Meeting

[RJV]

Greetings.

I'm a newbie to the list, but I live here in Phoenix and have followed the
events concerning Maricopa County and the Microsoft Antitrust suit from
a distance.

I was unable to attend the meeting this AM, as I work.  However, I did
attempt to get Morgan Loew, of TV5 KPHO to attend the meeting.  I'm a good
friend of his, and the email I sent to him (through the TV's website) can
be found here: (Please don't link this on Slashdot.  Thx)
http://www.procyon.com/~usacom/Antitrust-Maricopa.txt

I spoke to him today in person, as I was interested in hearing the events
of the meeting from a third party, but he was unable to attend.  However,
Morgan did speak to Paul Allsing today on the phone and is still
interested in gathering more information, with the possibility that it
would become a story on KPHO (TV 5 - CBS).  However, in order to do this,
he will need to interview someone from PLUG.

He asked that I contact you and direct you to email him at
kphoinv@kphotv5.com - which is the investigative team's[1] email address.

He's interested, and I'm available to help answer questions from you and
from him.  Being that this is a large news network, finding monetary
values of what the Maricopa Microsoft site license is would be very
useful, especially if a majority of the software used has a
non-proprietary free alternative.

Regards,
  R. Jason Valentine

[1] http://www.kpho.com/Global/story.asp?S=258687&nav=23Kt3HOD - the 5
Investigates link