I found this ....er, entertaining.

http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/columnists/thespike/vegter090625.asp?A=BSR&S=BestRead

"Linux vendors are guilty of bundling a lot of free applications.
Including sophisticated applications like OpenOffice and the Gimp at no
extra charge is clearly anti-competitive behaviour, as established by
the Microsoft precedent over Internet Explorer," Kroes says. "As if to
thumb their noses at EU regulators, they even give away the operating
system itself. How can real software companies be expected to compete on
an equal footing in Europe?"

"By giving people free software, open source vendors are violating their
right to choose more expensive software made by European companies,"
says Roche. "Paid-for software is clearly superior, as any student of
economics will tell you. So depriving users of the opportunity to pay
amounts to exploitative business practice."


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Hari


On 7/1/09 9:18 AM, Kiggundu Mukasa wrote:-
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> http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2316&blogid=14
> <http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2316&blogid=14>
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