To be fair, government at all levels did the same for Adobe by mandating that things be done in the PDF file format. Consistency of government operations sometimes requires that certain private companies be preferred vendors, and of course there's going to be a snowball effect there as big players get increasingly larger shares of available funds. Every government in history has had a government-industrial complex with winners and losers - some of this boils down to human nature.
> Consistency of government operations sometimes requires that certain private companies be preferred vendors
In which case those private companies should now be deemed an extension of the government and fall under all rules a government organization has to abide by. If they do not like it they can forbid the government from using their software/products and can sue if the government does not abide.
