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To: Gerald Walls who wrote (32905)	11/8/1999 1:21:00 AM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Gerald, Well, no one owns the hardware, so no one should own the O/S that runs the hardware. That way you eliminate any problems associated with tying the O/S to the hardware and excluding other application vendors so you can make money selling your own apps. This has been Microsoft's stock-in-trade for years. They are different than hardware companies that publish their own O/S for the hardware in one very important respect: they can't make money selling hardware so the HAVE to make it selling applications. There is an INHERENT conflict-of-interest in such a business plan. Microsoft is now and always has been an applications software company. They think and act like an applications software company. They don't have the engineering talent and the engineering culture to be an O/S-hardware company. That isn't going to change. They make enough money selling applications to divest themselves of their O/S's on the PC. If all PC O/S's were REQUIRED to be in the public domain (yes, even X86-Solaris), and the API's (libs) were put in the public domain as well, it would encourage lots of small apps vendors to create software for the PC & help pick it up out of its current, moribund state. MSFT won't suffer the loss of their O/S. NT isn't going anywhere in the enterprise anyway and the consumer will really benefit from increased competition for PC apps. Most importantly, it will get Microsoft out of their current jam with the DOJ. cheers, cherylw

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