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U.S. Army Warns Microsoft To Back Off
declan writes "My CNET News colleague Ina Fried has written an interesting article today about how the U.S. Army has told Microsoft to stop sending free CD-ROMs of Office 2003 to government employees. In what's effectively a cease and desist order, the Army said: 'Your offer of free software places our employees and soldiers in jeopardy of unknowingly committing a violation of the ethics rules and regulations to which they have taken an oath to uphold.' Whoops! Perhaps this is Microsoft's latest way to fight free software at the Pentagon. Remember that just 8 months ago, the Army paid $471 million for Microsoft licenses."
*sigh* You do know that openoffice is open source? And that classic macs run GNU and GCC?
Did you make the connection yet?
It takes a very narrow-minded individual to choose an inferior product over a superior one that has little capability of taking unfair advantage of any vendor lock-in it might have.
I had but a simple dream, to destroy all humans.
They do however, use their monopolistic position to try to force hardware upgrades down the user's throats (your battery doesn't work anymore, too bad, cough up the dough)(you want better performance, buy our new $3000 g5). Their licensing schemes are infinitely less rigid than Microsoft's (except for the whole "you can only install them on our machines even if you could find another ppc workstation"). Call me a troll, but risc or not, those are the reasons I stick to x86. I'll just 'switch' between xp and linux depending on the task at hand.
Hey! come on! try dividing it by anything!