To add a note of levity to the occasion of this new report, there is a group, backed by Microsoft, called the Initiative for Software Choice, that opposes the emphasis on open-source software.
Those living elsewhere in the world may not appreciate the way local political groups in the US use doublespeak. I live in California, where there are yearly initiatives to create laws that the citizenship get to vote on. If one group puts an initiative on the ballet (an initiative to reduce cancer, for example), the opposinggroup never puts up a counter initiative (for example, an initiative to increase cancer). Instead, they typically launch an initiative for "Freedom of Choice." Clearly, the folks up in Redmond have
picked up on the approach and created a group to oppose open
software. In effect, the initiative, is designed to "protect" the consumers' right to choose proprietary software that locks users into the Microsoft monopoly approach. It's a nice note to end summer on -- imagining Bill Gates keynoting the Initiative for Software Choice, earnestly pleading for companies to be allowed choice.

Seen in the Open Software forum, 2002-09-04
By Paul Harmon
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