Quebec government sued over purchase of Microsoft software

Facil ( Quebec’s open source association ) is suing the local provincial government for purchasing Microsoft software without following government guidelines which requires government organisations to stimulate competition and look for alternatives. They indicate that Quebec has refused to look at alternative bids from open source vendors – apparently they’re spending more than $80million per year on Vista alone!!! Now they may not be a 3rd world country but surely that money can be put to better use? But when you look at world wide usage of open source and free software, North America is woefully behind.