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Old 16th August 2011
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I see nothing strange about above tender! The same is true in U.S. for various government and state agencies. The ban on open source software is very common. Sometimes there are legitimate "technical" reasons for the ban sometimes a particular vendor has "legally" cornered the marker using lobbing. It is very possible that Romanian government has legally binding contract with Microsoft or some other large vendor for that matter which might be enforced by a state entity. It is very common that the State Department backs up U.S. based multinational corporations in legal cases against other "sovereign" government (I hope my Romanian friends forgive me this sarcasm as Serbian state is a "client state" of U.S. as much as Romanian if not more).
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