National Post: Old interference for a new economy

Thanks to Richard
Lamothe for this link.

“This week, the newly formed Canada Europe Round Table — a
group of 28 major Canadian and European companies — had its agenda
partially hijacked by Ottawa-based Corel, which is promoting the
Linux alternative to the Microsoft Windows operating system. Beside
the claim that it was “encouraging competition,” one of bases for
the Corel-CERT complaint was that Microsoft systems have been
adopted almost universally by . . . governments!”

“The notion of some mythical Marxist-nightmare future when
Microsoft will have such control that it can sit back and start
gouging consumers is pure fiction. Microsoft can only remain
successful by constantly offering new products and services with
more value to consumers — including governments.”

Complete story.