“”But being forced to pay Microsoft for products we don’t use —
or conversely — being forced to pay Microsoft in order to interact
with our government of the people, by the people, and for the
people, are examples of an unacceptable situation.“And for the most part, commentators carefully ignore the fact
that Microsoft operates as an illegal monopoly, and that if that
illegal monopoly was properly dealt with and stripped of its power
to dominate the desktop market, GNU/Linux advocacy would not need
to focus so much attention on Windows.”
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