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To: Mike Milde who wrote (28183)	2/23/2000 4:22:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (3) of 64865

Sun sells hardware servers and Solaris bundled. This is an anti-trust violation if the firm is dominant. Top servers are a single industry (IMO -- TPJ's mileage may vary). DOJ forced IBM to unbundle hardware and software in big iron years ago. If Sun does not offer or facilitate Windows on its hardware servers, or Solaris on other non-Sun platforms, it runs a risk. Microsoft, of course, developed windows for MIPS and Alpha as an accommodation to those (small) communities, but dropped them which exposed it to monopoly charges on x86 based server industry (for which TPJ dinged them by defining x86 as an "industry." Finally, no one has to have grounds to file an anti-trust suit. As a union leader said when he was asked by a cabinet officer for the grounds of his excessive wage demands: "Grounds? Coffee grounds! I don't need no stinking grounds."

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