[Bush2000]

"Schools and government agencies that are paying for Microsoft Office are wasting money," Nelson said. "They should be using free software. A lot of this stuff has become generic. It doesn't take a fancy program to make something bold."

Schools and government agencies that are paying for useless teachers and bureaucrats are wasting money," Bush2000 said. "They should fire them."

[B Knotts]

I won't argue that the school district people are anything other than incompetant boobs, but...it should be illegal to waste taxpayer money on licenses and license compliance for proprietary software when free software exists for the application intended.

And, Microsoft isn't going to win any support for their current antitrust position by employing extortionist tactics against school districts and other taxpayer-funded organizations.