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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; $15M) each year. The contract, for 'standardized workstations,' was issued with no public bidding process, Red Hat's legal team reports in a blog — because the Swiss agency asserted there was no sufficient alternative to Microsoft products.'"
Cars != an IT infrastructure. ...now go troll some other m$ hater forums.
I'm calling the patriotic nigras next time you're in SL
The fact is, linux isn't a viable alternative so it wasn't considered. Fact is, Red Hat is just having a cry about it. Why haven't we heard Apple complaining that they weren't chosen for the bidding process too? Because they have common sense.
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.
Centuries of incest does tend to do that to your thinking. And when you have Nazi jew gold to spend...
Ah, Switzerland!
It means you're lucky. Literally no scanner I have at home works on Linux (nor does it even have a Linux driver on their website, and even then if they had one I'd need to fuck around the command-line to get it to work)
linux sucks for most peoples needs :/
sorry but KingSatan@jsp.org > all