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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 $471 million for Microsoft licenses."
waste your mod points on this mod-nazis!
I must say that the recently the US Army has been becommnig more and more fascist. I guess Bush has seeded the evils of the SS within the ranks.
Your hate for MS doesn't need any action from MS. By coming to Slashdot and reading and believing in these stupid stories you are already telling us that you are ready to increase your hate without any cause. All you need is a stupid made-up story.
If you know better than thousands of the contractors then why don't you build a business and show us how you can do it better, instead of the usual whining on Slashdot.
I hope Bush is going to send in the army ASAP to stop the dangerous weapons of mass microsofticization and create freedom of software to replace the long Bill Gates dictatorship.
...just another M$-hater troll post, spouting off opinions based on hate instead of FACTS... ...m$ was GIVING away software, even if it had bugs, how is that worse then linux office suites that are free, and have buggs??? (we won't even go into the vast differences in the learning curves...) ...for those that want to shoot off their mouths that the linux software includeds source code, that they claim they can "fix", how many USERS can FIX source code????
F off.
*sigh* You do know that openoffice is open source? And that classic macs run GNU and GCC?
Did you make the connection yet?
of geeks bearing gifts.
Probly Trojaned
Yeah, I heard that about you Air Force guys. Can't be trained, toilet or otherwise.
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!
Folks - MS Office is probably the best software around. If you have something better and as powerful as MS Office, please stand up and show us