Quebec Government Sued for Buying Microsoft Software

[ Thanks to anonymous for this link. ]

"...the group says the provincial government has refused to entertain competing bids from all software providers, opting instead to supply public-sector departments with products bought from proprietary vendors such as Microsoft and Oracle Corp."

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