Red Hat Challenges Microsoft Lock-in...

[Caleb_IX]

...and Seeks Open Competition in Switzerland:

Red Hat News | Red Hat Challenges Microsoft Lock-in and Seeks Open Competition in*Switzerland

"In a brief filed yesterday with Swiss Federal Administration Court, Red Hat and other concerned companies requested that the court reverse the agency decisions and hold a public bidding process. This public process will allow for fair consideration of the merits of open source and other non-Microsoft software products."

[syampillai]

Govt departments around the world pay millions of dollars to MS. MS has a division to lobby only the Govt departments in various countries. They sometimes come up with free offers to Govt organization to lay the trap for future revenues. I have come across more than a dozen incidents like that in the past.

[Caleb_IX]

I have no link at the time in English:

But there are nice news: The federal administration court stopped the Microsoft-deal "super"-provisional, thats really good, then the for this the court has to decide:

1. Does it exist danger of badly damage Open Source? ->Yes

2. Is the demand versus MS stand to gain? ->Yes

The cash is stopped, the tree years deal at the time frozen...

Sorry, its not in English, if someone can find one in English, please post it...

Gericht stoppt Bundesauftrag an Microsoft (Schweiz, NZZ Online)

[microchip8]

Use Google translate? Not perfect but still readable

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