[Am-info] Nader and Love: U.S. government could end Microsoft monopoly by hanging, purchasing, policy

[Roy Bixler]

On Newsforge, there's a nice addendum to the story of the German
government's adoption of Linux as a supported platform.

Nader and Love: U.S. government could end Microsoft monopoly by
changing purchasing policy
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/06/04/1625209.shtml?tid=4

 Tuesday June 04, 2002 - [ 05:12 PM GMT ]
 Topic - Government -  - By Grant Gross - 
If the U.S. government really wants to end the Microsoft monopoly,
it has an easy way to do so without involving a bunch of antitrust
lawyers, suggest consumer activist and former presidential candidate
Ralph Nader and technology consumer activist Jamie Love. The two are
asking the government to change its software procurement policy to
require that office suites work on multiple operating systems, or to
require office software to disclose its file formats.

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Roy Bixler <rcb@bix.org>
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