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To: dybdahl who wrote (107)	8/14/2002 8:18:54 AM
From: Rusty Johnson	of 19790

Group campaigns against open source By Matthew Broersma Special to CNET News.com Microsoft and other software companies are ramping up a lobbying effort that aims to convince governments to think again about adopting open-source software. A representative of CompTIA said that the initiative had arisen because of concern that governments--particularly those in Europe--were creating policies that favored open-source software. "When governments base their choice on a preference that takes merit out of the situation, that's a concern to us," said Mike Wendy, public relations and policy counsel for CompTIA. "More options are always better." news.com.com Initiative for Software Choice softwarechoice.org Linux ... the REAL initiative for software choice.

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