>The school system is going to use Linux and other free software? Wait a minute... I though Microsoft had a monopoly. Oh, it turns out that they don't! Just like I have been saying. You use them, the school system uses them, and so do many others. Geez, what a surprise. If Microsoft wants to shoot themselves in the foot, so be it.
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>Here is another option for those and others who have realized that Microsoft does not have a monopoly: exercise your ability to choose from different vendors, and get off the Whiney Butt Wagon.
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Seems to me, Chris, that a Federal Court found that MS has a "monopoly". You can state otherwise all you like BUT the law says they have a monopoly and that's good enough for most of us.

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