[FYI] In re: "Die 101 Köpfe der New Economy: Detlef Eckert"

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28369.html

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Commission to 'look into' antitrust work of MS' Eurocrat hire  

By John Lettice  

Posted: 29/11/2002 at 16:13 GMT  

[...]

This one may yet run some distance, but Eckert, who is going to work 
from Paris on Trustworthy Computing, under the .NET umbrella at 
Microsoft, will most certainly be minding what he says. The trouble 
is that, although Microsoft says he's not going to work for the legal 
unit (of course he isn't, silly), Trustworthy Computing is all about 
security, identity, encryption... All of this is stuff his unit was 
directly concerned with on a day to day basis, and there's far more 
potential here for conflict of interest than there is as regards the 
antitrust case.  

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See also:

http://www.ftd.de/pw/eu/1066278.html?nv=rs

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Aus der FTD vom 15.2.2001

Die 101 Köpfe der New Economy: Detlef Eckert

Von Nicole Adolph, Brüssel

Detlef Eckert leitet bei der EU-Kommission in Brüssel den 
Planungsstab, der die Europäische Union für das digitale Zeitalter 
fit machen soll. Im Geheimen träumt er davon, sich selbstständig zu 
machen und seine Ideen auf dem freien Markt zu verkaufen.  

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