You do not remember that whole thing? Microsoft swooped in with their marketers and lobbyists and got the Mass government to change its mind. The ostensible reason was that open source software was less compatible with certain devices for blind people. So Microsoft won that particular round, and it will be interesting to see what will happen in SF.<p>However, MS cannot keep throwing millions of dollars at lobbyists and politicians every time a government decides to look at open source. If they keep doing it, some governments will go open source just for a slice of those MS lobbying money. So eventually something will give out.