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To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (18648)	8/16/1999 8:46:00 PM
From: paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Microsoft needs to get serious about Open Source otherwise there will be more defections such as SGI from the Windows camp, Dell, Compaq and of course IBM are already seizing the opportunity in a guarded way (cant make Bill too mad - liable to jack up our licensing fees) - Linux on the other hand is free like Unix and rock solid like Unix - its not a "proprietary" set of API's (take that James Nicoll) like Windows that sucks the life out of the application layer so that no developer can make a penny except for Microsoft - any developer with half a brain is going to choose to develop in Java or Linux in the future and not wait for Microsoft to finally deliver on a reliable OS that has very little value to anyone but Microsoft in keeping a hammerlock on the desktop and server OS and applications layer. Microsoft has also been very restrictive about Windows in the past not allowing any OEM to modify it in any way - therefore ensuring that the "platform" a customer sees is Windows and not Compaq, HP, Dell, etc. (and thus preventing anyone from improving it!) This has been a sore spot in the past as well as the monopolistic profit margins Microsoft acheives on each copy of windows relative to the plummeting cost of a PC - in other words Microsoft is stuffing itself at the table while their "partners" have mostly been dining off crumbs.