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Microsoft Battles Free Software at Pentagon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the attack-of-the-lobbyists dept.

Spirit of Ishmael writes "The May 22 Washington Post is running a story under the headline Microsoft Fights Free Software at Pentagon. According to the story: 'Microsoft Corp. is aggressively lobbying the Pentagon to squelch its growing use of freely distributed computer software and switch to proprietary systems such as those sold by the software giant, according to officials familiar with the campaign.'"

2 of 679 comments (clear)

  1. What are their selling points? by teslatug · · Score: 5, Funny

    You have this software that you pay nothing for and that thousands of people around the world find bugs in, but you should BUY ours because we obscure our bugs and only we know how this software works...???

  2. Doesn't the government? by wbav · · Score: 5, Funny

    Go with the lowest bidder?

    How does M$ expect to beat free?

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