The Left hand And The Right Hand

In typical fashion, one branch of the US government is banning agencies from specifying brands like Intel or Microsoft in procurement contracts, while at the same time another area is building a process that forces anyone applying for a government grant to use MS Windows. The Grants.gov website will become the sole submission point for all grant requests, and they have announced plans to require all proposals to be formatted with the PureEdge form generator, a tool that runs only under Windows on an x86 platform. So much for competition.