Red Hat Challenges Swiss Government Over Microsoft Monopoly

An anonymous reader writes "'Linux vendor Red Hat, and 17 other vendors, have protested a Swiss government contract given to Microsoft without any public bidding. The move exposes a wider Microsoft monopoly that European governments accept, despite their lip service for open source, according to commentators. The Red Hat group has asked a Swiss federal court to overturn a three-year contract issued to Microsoft by the Swiss Federal Bureau for Building and Logistics, to provide Windows desktops and applications, with support and maintenance, for 14M Swiss francs (£8M; $15M) each year. The contract, for 'standardized workstations,' was issued with no public bidding process, Red Hat's legal team reports in a blog — because the Swiss agency asserted there was no sufficient alternative to Microsoft products.'"

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Re:Make it work with Active Directory first, then

[rxan]

I tried with Linux. It works, after a fashion, but you get really tired of constantly working around glitches and gotchas.

Thank you! Someone understands!

I want an OS that just works. For me, Windows just works. There has not been a time when I've use a Linux machine and not had some glitch or workaround to overcome.