Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Argentina Mulls Open-Source Move
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Argentina may become the first country in the world to require all government
>| offices to use open-source software, pending the outcome of a bill recently
>| introduced in the nation's congress.
> `----
>
> http://argentinadiscovery.nireblog.com/post/2008/04/13/argentina-mulls-open-source-move
>
> With Ecaudor, Venezuela and the EU making similar moves recently (see below),
> Microsoft is truly in trouble.
>
Hoist by their own petard, I should say. If they'd been a little less
aggressive at trying to pervert and corrupt international standards
bodies, and at trying to lock the whole world into paying them royalties
for using a computer in any way, they might've been in a somewhat better
state now.
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