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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy?
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To: DJBEINO who wrote (28811)11/6/1999 6:29:00 AM
From: Paul Fiondella  Read Replies (3) of 42771
 
Publish the source code

Now that Jackson has brought the US FEderal Court system into the 20th Century (of course the Appeals Court could send it back into the 19th!) maybe it is time to consider the remedies.

Monetary damages to Netscape are useless as a consumer remedy. The only thing that will increase competition is forcing MSFT to relinquish its hold on the desktop. That means forcing MSFT to publish its Windows source code and license that code to others at a nominal cost. That would permit a reentry into the OS market of numerous companies.

Some of you may recall that back in the Win3.1 days a product called PCTools was available. It substituted itself for for the Windows program manager and gave the GUI an entirely different and far more user friendly interface than Windows did while running all Windows programs. That effort was crushed and MSFT took many of those features into Win95.

Novell is bound to benefit from this ruling, both in its stock price and business prospects.
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