U.S. Justice Dept. Chooses Corel over Microsoft

peg0cjs writes "The Justice Department, which challenged Microsoft Corp. in courtrooms for nearly a decade over antitrust violations, will pay more than $2 million each year to buy business software from Corel Corp, according to this article from CANOE. 'The Justice Department will make WordPerfect software available to more than 20 organizations inside the agency, but not the FBI or Drug Enforcement Administration, which use Microsoft's Office business software exclusively, said Mary Aileen O'Donovan, a program manager in the Justice Management Division.' According to the article, the deal is worth up to $13.2 million over five years for Ontario-based Corel. Has sanity finally set in, or is this just a blip in Microsoft's dominance in controlling government software decisions?"

Comments

Yawn

[Anonymous Coward]

see subject.

noone

[Anonymous Coward]

cares

What?

[drinkypoo]

Has a clue set in? No. If it had, they would have used OpenOffice. Instead they're paying for a Corel product. Am I hallucinating, or are these the people who got sued because their drawing program was so buggy? Are these the people who botched their Linux business lines about three times in a row while whole other Linux companies were created and flourished? If Corel were a woman, I wouldn't fuck her with a stolen dick.

Re:What?

[dalutong]

Yes, I was, thank you very much. We twisted our wiskers and spoke pompously about how Microsoft hadn't given us a good enough cut. It might have cost each of us some money, but it felt so good to screw the f*ckers who wouldn't give us our cut!

patriotic

[Anonymous Coward]

How patriotic, the American gov't chooses canadian software over its own? Has GWB found out about this?

whoring

[Anonymous Coward]

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WP is just as proprietary and just as closed

[stratjakt]

Dumb fucks and your anti-M$ crusade. This is no better than if they chose MS Office.

If anything, it's worse and will hamper communications between agencies and to the general public, who will now need to shell out for both MSOffice and WP if they're to deal with gov't.

But oh oh oh MS lost a sale!! hoorah!