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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. There are always choices... by Nethergoat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Such as Outlook vs. Outlook Express
    Perhaps you prefer Frontpage to Frontpage Express?
    Hmm...looks like CA is about to serve up some Lawyers via the Lawyer Express

  2. IBM should sue! by nbvb · · Score: 3, Funny

    Prior Art...

    http://www-3.ibm.com/software/os/warp/swchoice/

    --NBVB

    OS/2 Forever! (Or until 1996, whichever comes first.)

  3. No need by TheAncientHacker · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft doesn't like to make bad investments and the California government is already, apparently, owned by Oracle.

  4. Re:Don't understand the initiative by kcurrie · · Score: 2, Funny
    Every hacker from here to Timbuktu would then have all of the information he needed to successfully hack the systems.

    ...because with the information available now, there's NO WAY anybody could hack a MS system. Oh wait..

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    -- I speak only for myself.