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MS "Software Choice" Campaign: A Clever Fraud

Posted by michael on from the preach-it-brother dept.

Bruce Perens writes "Microsoft's new "Software Choice" campaign is all for your right to choose... as long as you choose Microsoft. It's too bad that Intel and the U.S. Government couldn't see through the rhetoric. Read the full story at The Register." Note that California will soon be considering - like Peru - a law to mandate open source software in government. The gloves are off - on both sides.

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  1. Re:I did choose: Mac OS X by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    OSX is pretty good, but apple hardware is over-priced underperfoming crap.

  2. And isn't that what slashbots are against? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Slashbots want Microsoft to be broken up.
    Slashbots want to control what Micrsoft is allowed to package with their product.
    Slashbots want to take away a companies right to sell music by letting anyone copy it.

  3. CNET still exists? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I thought they went under about 4 months ago. I had to check that stock price to make sure my mind wasn't going. I was close, they still exist but have a nice stock price of $.85.

  4. Re:Microsoft == US Goverment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    > Consider the fact that the majority of lawyers in Washington DC work for Microsoft

    This has got to be the DUMBEST thing I have ever read on slashdot. And that's saying something.