Microsoft Lobby Denies the State of Chile Access to Free Software

Posted by thesilviu on Aug 20, 2014 2:54 PM EDT
Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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Fresh on the heels of the entire Munich and Linux debacle, another story involving Microsoft and free software has popped up across the world, in Chile. A prolific magazine from the South American country says that the powerful Microsoft lobby managed to turn around a law that would allow the authorities to use free software.

The story broke out from a magazine called El Sábado de El Mercurio, which explains in great detail how the Microsoft lobby works and how it can overturn a law that may harm its financial interests.

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