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To: Prognosticator who wrote (22388)	11/6/1999 5:31:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (2) of 64865

I think the "remedies" will amount to more regulation which won't just apply to Msft but the entire industry. If the regulation is too much it could mire down the large players in the tech sector (including Sun). As an example, giving away Star Office for free could be considered predatory pricing (to Applix and Corel) - a company which is in one business sector "dumps" product into another business sector to spur sales in effect hurting a business in the "dumped" sector. If the remedy phase gets out of control we could we expect things like ... 1. Dividing Msft. (akin to AT&T) - 1 OS company, 1 APPS company, and possible 1 NET company 2. Source Licensing (akin to USL) - license source for OS + API's - users can modify and distribute their own binary releases - in effect we have possibly N windows look-a-likes all competing with each other All just IMHO of course. Cheers James

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