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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Kenya Linux Group Challenges Procurement Policies
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>> | After losing out on many software tenders to the government, the Linux
>> | Professional Association (LPA) will engage the Public Procurement
>> | Oversight Authority (PPOA) in Kenya over procurement rules, according to
>> | the association chairman.
>> |
>> | The association members have been locked out of government tenders
>> | because the requests for proposals are usually skewed toward Microsoft
>> | products, therefore locking out open-source software developed locally,
>> | says LPA Chairman Evans Ikua.
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>> http://www.cio.com/article/367113
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> What it means is that micoshaft is funding bribes outside of the USA.
>
> Companies such as IBM and others who have bases in the USA that
> want open source contracts in partnership with local companies
> should sue micoshaft in the USA where there are laws against it
> and the fines are whole lot bigger to level the playing field.
>
They might be better choosing to make the case in the EU, which seems to
have the strongest anti-trust bias at the moment.
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