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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 485.92+0.4%Dec 19 9:30 AM EST
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To: HDC who wrote (31508)11/2/1999 1:29:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd  Read Replies (1) of 74651
 
HDC: That is the number that I recall. That is another interesting point regarding the open source remedy. Let us say MSFT auctions off the code to 5 "competitors". After they win their respective bids what are they going to do with it. Are they going to be able to stay abreast of MSFT 2001? I don't think so. Who is going to make hide nor hair of 30,000,0000 lines of code and be able to something with it. Then there is the question of the third party licensors code that is imbedded therein. Will the new owners be able to change it?Will they be bound by any standards. Even the Finn insists on the final say re: Linux. Will they pay an ongoing licensing fee to MSFT. What advantage will the ownership of the code be to those that are, compared to MSFT, totally unfamiliar with the code.

The DOJ and Jackson don't have a clue about what is involved in some of the remedies that they so blithely bandy about.

MSFT has the talent to deal with this enormous project - who else does? MAybe IBM but I will bet that they wouldn't even bid as they have lost this contest once already. MSFT makes the best implementation of Java for Windows because they have the talent - who has the brain resources to compete? JFD
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