Yes, how dare the government decide what software goes on government computers.
Read again:
"Nader’s major demand in the letter to the OMB was that the Bush Administration purchases the rights to Microsoft’s software and releases it into the public domain."
The government can't afford to buy MS intellectual property for what it's worth -- so they'd have to steal it. Thanks, Nader, but no thanks: Reread the Constitution.
B2K, I'm right with you on this one. Nader here makes a strong showing of both his communist leanings and computer illiteracy. Trying to force all government contracts to Linux is just as bad as locking all aerospace contracts with Armalite to the exclusion of Colt, or Boeing to the exclusion of Lockheed.
All Nader really wants to do is nationalize Microsoft.