As I explained in my blog post this petition is a cover for a nasty anti-Microsoft group called Digistan, probably funded by a Soros slush fund aimed at building a socialist world government that wants to constrain business and legislate away profits. The Digistan Manifesto is a collection of half lies and untruths and almost no-one has signed.
What is true is that we need more competition in the market which is why MSFT have been cutting the cost of XP to people who need it, such as in education. Now people have a real choice between low-cost XP and high-value Vista.
Please do not sign the radical Digistan manifesto... it will only lead to governments mistakenly legislating for "free and open standards" (whatever that means, the Digistan site does not say!), which will be bad for everyone.
What education needs is affordable access to Microsoft technology, to promote shareholder value.
Thanks.
