Yahoo/AP: Microsoft Drowns Out Other Options

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"Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation, visited this information technology hub earlier this month to try to persuade leaders that Microsoft and other purveyors of proprietary software are poison.

"By Wednesday, it was clear he wasn't winning.

"Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates had been handing out so many freebies to India's federal and state governments in the last three days that talk of open-source software had started annoying government officials..."

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