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U.S. Army Warns Microsoft To Back Off

Posted by simoniker on from the or-else dept.

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."

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  1. Military/Gates/CIA by Muttonhead · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I bet MS is so far in bed with the military that you could call him "Col. Gates of the CIA."