XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.os2.advocacy   
   From: ajbrehm@gmail.com   
      
   TokaMundo  wrote:   
      
   > On 28 Aug 2005 17:14:54 GMT, timh  Gave us:   
   >   
   > > With the exception of some niche   
   > >places like the scientific community, Windows is the exclusive   
   > >server and desktop of the government, no discussion.   
   >   
   >   Bullshit.  You MAY be referring to current office based governing.   
   > The military, however, does not follow your remarks...  no discussion.   
   >   
   >   You cannot have been around long to make that claim.   
   >   
   >   VMS AIX mainframes, etc. have been around in government service for   
   > many years longer than MS has.  Linux is now being used, and even in   
   > embedded systems.   
      
   I assume that the government buys a lot of Microsoft software and then   
   discovers that Microsoft have a huge share of the market?   
      
   If the government bought only from competitors of the market leader,   
   what would happen to anti-trust law?   
      
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