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Pastimes : It All Depends on DOJ vs MSFT
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To: David Freidenberg who started this subject3/2/2001 12:47:04 PM
From: David Freidenberg   of 61
 
Even MSFT basher slashdot is uncomfortable with DOJ:
"Much as people fault the quality of Microsoft's
software and decry its practices, the truth is that tens of millions of people have used their
products successfully to access the Net and the Web and run their PCs. And the idea that a
Microsoft break-up would enhance competitiveness and creativity have always seemed
dubious, even menacing. The Net has been so creative and explosive in part because the
government didn't know enough about it to mess it up. That's a dangerous precedent to
change.
I'd rather see MS challenged creatively in the marketplace, or by the generous spirit of
movements like Open Source, than by a bunch of admittedly clueless federal bureaucrats,
or an erratic judge. It seems clear that no one in the federal government from Congress to
the regulatory agencies to the White House -- is in a strong position to oversee or regulate
the Net or the increasingly disparate tech nation."
slashdot.org
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