Linux, Tigers, and Bears -- Oh My!

As we all prepare for Arnold's paean to bright shiny Republicanism this evening, we Californians are wondering what has he done for us lately? Perhaps the one interesting thing to emerge from Gov. Schwarzenegger's sounds-like-an-anti-doping-agency "California Performance Review Commission" is this:
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Proposal Urges California to Use More Open-Source Software

California lawmakers and administrators got an earful on open-source
software: A state government panel considered proposals that would boost
government use of Linux and other technologies. The proposals appear in a
lengthy report from the California Performance Review Commission, charged
by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger with figuring out how to make state
government work better and cheaper.
    
(Source: CNET News.com)
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Could this be related to this?

California Governments Sue Microsoft for Antitrust Violations
     Five California counties and two cities have filed a class-action
lawsuit against the software giant for using its monopoly power to deny
government agencies free choice in software products and charge high
prices. The legal action, filed by the city and county of San Francisco,
said that Microsoft's tactics caused harm to government users of its
Windows operating system and Word and Excel software.
     Read more:
http://www.gigalaw.com/newsarchives/2004_08_29_index2.html#109380184075427988
(Source: CNET News.com)