[Am-info] Microsoft muscle and children's education

[T. Guilbert]

An interesting juxtaposition of articles today.  One is by columnist
Bob Herbert in the New York Times about how budgets are causing a
"meltdown" of the public school system in Oregon, one of the best
systems in the nation. 
><http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/01/opinion/01HERB.html> 

The other is how Microsoft lobbyists worked over the Speaker of the
Oregon House of Representatives to kill a likely-to-pass bill that
would have allowed (not required) public school systems to consider
using open source software and save millions of dollars. 
 ><http://oregonlive.com/commentary/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/editorial/1051876782142831.xml>

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