Awright, who made up the story about the state IT director?

David's been wondering about the now bogus story about the alleged improprieties of state CIO Peter Quinn going to open-source computing conferences (to talk about the state's proposal for an open-source document standard). He does something about it:

... It does make you wonder where the Massachusetts government got the wrong information that prompted the false accusations and the article in the first place. Did the Romney administration fall for a Microsoft smear? I've sent Stephen Kurkjian an email, asking.

Kurkjian is the Globe reporter who wrote the front-page story a week or so ago raising questions about Quinn's travels (as well as the more recent, not-on-page-one story exonerating him).

Earlier:
Hung out to dry, state IT official is reeled back in
How long before the state's looking for a new IT head?

My standard newspaper disclosure.