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Microsoft isn't exactly <u>evil</u>.
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But it is too big and too powerful for anyone's good.
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Time after time, Microsoft has picked a software category (such as web browsers or databases), and used its vast resources and its position as the dominant operating-system developer to either eliminate or seriously weaken competing companies... even when Microsoft's products weren't any better. The end result is that we have fewer browsers to choose from, fewer operating systems, fewer word processors, etc. And with less real competition comes less real innovation and improvement. The company motto calls for "Microsoft software on every computer." And <u>no one</u> (not even the government) can stop them.
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No one except <u>you</u>, that is.
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You can still choose whether or not to buy and use Microsoft software.<br>
You can choose products from <u>other</u> sources... often <u>better</u> and <u>cheaper</u> .<br>
You can make the choice to <b>Just Say NO to Microsoft</b>.
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<a href="how.html">"But how?"</a>
<a href="cant.html">"But I can't!"</a>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Click the various Microsoft icons above (or the text links below) to see information about alternatives to each product. Read the descriptions and click on the icons to learn more about each alternative product. Then make a <u>real choice</u>.
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These lists are not intended to include <u>all</u> of the alternatives; there's no way they could, because there are too many developers out there still struggling to provide them. Instead these lists focus on the options which - <a href="me.html">in my informed opinion</a> - offer the closest matches to Microsoft's, the highest quality, the lowest price, and/or the strongest challenge to Microsoft's influence. The ones I use and recommend personally are marked with a <img src="check.gif" border=0 alt="my choice" width=11 height=14>.
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Please <a href="mailto:notMS at toddverbeek.com">e-mail me</a> with any corrections, suggested additions, etc.
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