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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (18451)4/14/1998 5:15:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes  Read Replies (2) of 24154
 
>>>I repeat: they should just break up the company and save us all the hassle of having to deal with proposals like this.<<<

Agree. The logic of partial separation can't be made to work, it's too complicated. Even if you figured it out, MSFT would perpetually be playing the same game as always. The spirit of such rulings meaning nothing.

One thing puts them on the same footing vis-a-vis OS info, APIs, and so on - be a separate apps development company like everybody else. If the OS section after the breakup were motivated to distribute core information in a way it is not now, and provide development tools and help in a more industry-responsive way, and along with that we had a more level playing field at the retail level so that the financial rewards of developing new software came back, we could see a general acceleration in applications development everywhere..

Cheers,
Chaz
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