Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> I'm rather upset that our government spent 10 million dollars 
> buying Windows XP and related software for schools when (a) a 
> lot of schools here have Macintoshes, and (b) Linux and 
> StarOffice are available free, gratis, and for nothing.  
> Doubtless someone who wants to boycott Sun would be happy 
> that the "owners" of StarOffice "lost a sale", but they 
> wouldn't have got any money for it, and haven't really "lost" 
> a cent. (StarOffice is now OpenOffice.)

That really is an unfortunate waste of money.  I fail to see why anyone
would spend any money on an operating system these days.  Perhaps your
government officials were seeking a few perks from the executives in
Redmond?  Just a guess.

- Stephen