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From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
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Subject: Microsoft takes on ACT
Date: 23 May 2002 08:24:02 -0700
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I'm curious what, if any, response ACT has to Microsoft's recent
efforts to convince the DoD to ban Free Software. (see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html ).
Seeing as ACT's supported products would qualify, this would seem to
be a direct attack on their business (or at least some of it, I have
no clue what % of ACT customers are DoD and contractors, but I
understand its >0).

This is fairly big news, and I'm interested in what the ACT folks
around here think of it, given that they seem to be on the "bad end"
of Microsoft's guns on this one.