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Still. They got a Microsoft office with a lot of well paying jobs. It's something.

Most countries could dream of such leverage over a company like Microsoft.

Much of our wealth is grounded in immorality.

How do they do that? I mean, practically?

If the open source solution works, where do Microsoft spend money to make it fail?

I am not saying this was the reason, but it is suspicious that the Munich Linux project was dropped, after Microsoft moved their headquarters back into Munich.

And the reasons given were made up. The recommendation written by Accenture claimed that "users weren't satisfied" while a poll from a newspaper showed that most users were indeed satisfied

Bribery can also work. I'm not saying that this is what they have done in Germany, but in Romania it was a big scandal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_licensing_corrupti...

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

Again: be specific.

If I remember, there was also an issue around people working in the administration not wanting to get used to new software/ not being able to do some tasks.