Quote of the day: 'Entwined' in Microsoft's 'spider webs'

In an interview at a Brussels conference organized by the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue, Green Party politician David Hammerstein Mintz told CNET News.com that the European Union is "totally justified" in its ongoing antitrust pursuit of Microsoft.

"They're forcing millions of consumers to use their products and become entwined in their spider webs," he said. "Really, I think EU institutions should put their money where their mouth is on this issue because a lot of the internal EU information technology systems are 100 percent Microsoft. We as Greens are struggling against this and to make this system open."

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