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To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (33604)	11/10/1999 11:16:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (3) of 74651

Two separate, independent companies would be enough. One for the system, the other for applications, including Internet access. Would the OS part be allowed to distribute Notepad with Windows? If not, does someone have to buy such a basic application as a Separately Priced Product? If it can be distributed, why should looking at file hosted on your own machine be any different than looking at one hosted over a network, of which the internet is only a special case? Are there limits to how much formatting of the file's contents would be allowed before suddenly it isn't an OS utility but is instead an app and must be bought separately? What government agency makes that decision and, most importantly, how long do they have to decide? Six months? Twelve months? Eighteen months? Nightmare.

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