Microsoft must be destroyed

In the title text, of course, the grotesque (like, Carthage must be destroyed).
It is about promoting open / closed standards in software at the national level.
The user must have a choice. When, at the national level, only (!) Microsoft products are promoted through the systems of state institutions and public education, this limits the right of millions of users to choose.
Personally, I fully support initiatives to promote open source software in educational and government institutions, and I am ready to go on a picket to promote open standards:
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“In France, at the legislative level, it is forbidden to train in public institutions in closed systems, ” says Gordeyev. - In Germany and China - the same thing. In the States, 80% of the training programs used are open.

And UNESCO officially declares: it is necessary to use open programs in education. Yes, the developers of Microsoft themselves studied just on open systems.
... on the cheap, to the products of "Microsoft" slowly got used to government agencies, individuals and large enterprises. True, now a “surprise” often happens: a letter comes to the company with a kind and quite fair request to pay for using a Microsoft product. We only have the public sector to the company about three billion dollars.
in Germany, the state finances the development of open source software for schools and universities. And the Chinese on the recent proposal of Bill Gates (he went to the Middle Kingdom directly from Russia) to put a new modification of Windows - Vista nod: of course, Mr. Gates, put, but in state institutions - only for free.
It takes nothing. Political will. Learn from school to use open systems. OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office. Without fail. Teaching teachers is a must. It is not cheap. But all invested funds will remain in the country and then will work for us.
... according to Vladimir Balberin, “there is a purely legal problem at school: it is recommended by law to use Windows. The entire system of passing the exam is focused on using only Windows. As well as the entire learning process - teaching materials, numerous electronic textbooks, tests ... "

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