"Proposed" Software monopoly?

Citizens Against Government Waste should be ashamed of itself. As a
liberty-loving foe of intrusive government, I'm normally sympathetic to
their crusade against bureaucracy and over-regulation. But today,
CAGW made the strongest argument I've ever seen for writing them off
as mere shills for corporate greed.
 
CAGW's press release[1] attacking the Massachusetts Freeware
Initiative reads like it was dictated by Microsoft's PR department --
complete with a fraudalent assertion that open source is more
expensive, and even an attempt to associate open source with the
hideous evils of the Soviet Union and socialism.
 
CAGW affects to be horrified by what it calls a "Proposed Software
Monopoly". Which raises this question: where has CAGW been all these
years while Massachusetts taxpayers were being gouged by an *actual*
monopoly?
 
Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn is doing his job, ensuring that the
government and the people of Massachusetts will no longer be
locked into closed formats and closed software and unhealthy
dependence on a monopolist. Open government demands open source.
 
[1] Press release at PRNewsWire
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
 
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were
no religion in it. -- John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson.