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dmarshal@netcom.com (Dave Marshall) writes:

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> I'm trying to figure out how much of the taxpayers' money 
> could be saved if the federal government were to buy software licenses 
> less and use free software more.
> 
> A practical example:
> 
> Suppose Microsoft elects in 1996 to release DOS 7.0, and suppose the 
> federal government has one million PCs for which the individual agencies 
> elect to purchase an upgrade at, say, twenty dollars each.  Wouldn't it 
> be wiser to sponsor some organization (such as the FSF) for some fraction 
> of that twenty million dollars to create something called FreeDOS that could 
> replace proprietary DOSs?   

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Just a thought -- watch out for "collateral damages". To wit:

Microsoft loses $20Million in sales and has to layoff X programmers. They
get welfare, unemployment, and other stuff from the government. Also,
there will be less tax by the amount on those lost sales.