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To: Duane L. Olson who wrote (33572)	11/10/1999 9:39:00 AM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Duane: The operate phrase in Charles post was let MSFT split is O/S division off. Let market forces tell MSFT that this is the proper choice not some judge and the DOJ who don't know a bit from a byte. And lest you get too far afield in your speculation here is what the NYTimes says the government hacks are pondering as alternatives: One would be to force Microsoft to publish the secret, proprietary source code that makes up the Windows operating system. Another would be to force the company to auction the Windows source code so that two or three other companies could sell competing systems, the Times said.. A third would split it into several parts, each holding all the software code and intellectual property from Microsoft products, but in competition. The final alternative is breaking it up into three companies, one controlling the operating system, one its applications programmes like Word and Excel, and the third with the Internet and related businesses, the Times said.

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