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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?

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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (33194)	11/8/1999 3:10:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (2) of 74651

I don't get it. Do you want me to say the same old thing and respond to you, or not??? Please clarify. I don't care if you answer me or not. I'm just going to continue to point out the ridiculous nature of your statements. You claim that since no one "owns" the hardware then no one should "own" the OS. But, extending your argument, if no one "owns" the OS, why should anyone "own" the application software? In real life, there's an open standard for the PC. Each box builder implements this standard and they do indeed own that particular implementation of that hardware standard, and probably have or have licensed patents on certain parts of that implementation. Microsoft owns one particular way of implementing an operating system that will run on hardware build to that open standard. Sun owns another particular operating system implementation, the x86 version of Solaris. Sun can do whatever they want with their implementation, including give it away or withdraw it completely from the market. Microsoft can do the same.

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