Google Sues US Gov't For Only Considering Microsoft

Posted by Soulskill on Monday November 1, 2010 @08:20AM from the do-not-pass-go dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Late last week, Google sued the US government for putting out a Request For Quotation for the messaging needs of the Department of the Interior that specified only Microsoft solutions would be considered. Google apparently had spent plenty of time talking to DOI officials to understand their needs and make sure they had a solution ready to go — and were promised that there wasn't a deal already in place with Microsoft. And then the RFQ came out. Google protested, but the protest was dismissed, with the claim that Google was 'not an interested party.'"

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Re:Eheh by joelleo · 2010-11-01 09:26 · Score: 1, Redundant

How was the parent's post Insightful?? He added nothing to the discussion and whitewashed the whole thing as "not the solution to anything." Seems a rather blunt and ignorant statement.
Why is it not the solution to anything? What makes it inferior to the other options out there? What other options ARE there that perform the same functions?
Insightful != Agree

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