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To: JC Jaros who wrote (28275)	2/24/2000 10:36:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) of 64865

JC - The hairball in question is any M$ desktop OS with an integrated browser. At least, that'd be my understanding. That understanding is incorrect. NT was never included in the DOJ's discussions - probably because it has limited share as a desktop OS and no share in the consumer market, and this was after all about harm to consumers. I'm quite sure there isn't a lack of motivated software engineers willing to safari into the Windows codebase, Rudedog. While I don't claim to know every programmer in the world, I know about a hundred who are interested in Linux internals for every one who is interested in Windows. In case you didn't know, the windows source code has been available to OEMs for years - they just can't ship a modified version. So it's not like the contents are a mystery. And it's not a "fun" bunch of code to work with. Even the softees who maintain it don't much like it. There seems to be a tendency to shift the whole of the DOJ argument, remedies etc. to Win2K - but there just isn't anything in the trial testimony aimed that way, so I can't see Win2K being affected except in the most general sense of a restructuring of MSFT, something that I think is unlikely in our lifetimes.

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