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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (28828)	11/8/1999 1:34:00 AM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Respond to of 42771

Hello Paul, Sorry ... maybe I misunderstood your suggestion about the source code for Windows. > Maybe you've forgot about that wonderful company AT&T. Do you > remember when you couldn't connect a 30cps teletype to their lines > without permission? After all they owned the patents didn't they > and they controlled who and how THEIR network was used? Yep ... and I've read a couple of books (a while ago) about this ... > And they owned the lines and they owned the phones and they owned > the switches, and they owned the relays and they owned the local > telephone companies and they owne the long distance telephone > companies and they owned practically everything concerning > communications by wire. On a side note, I was surprised to discover that even in the AT&T court documents it states that AT&T never had more than 50% of the installed US telephones! It was interesting to read about how they een helped their competitors to ensure that this was the case ... So yes, I'm familiar with the case and the outcome. I'm not sure that I saw anything in the AT&T outcome which had them "give away" their products or technologies. I did see a breaking up of the core local access into the baby Bells. I did see the very intelligent spin-off of Lucent (albiet a long time later) to further the seperation and competition. Your suggestion that the Windows source code be given away, or at a one-time license, is far beyond anything that was done at the AT&T rulings. As for reading the "finding" I'm about halfway through it ... it's taking a while ... As for working for Microsoft, no ... not yet. I can be bought, but right now my price is pretty high ... ;-) Scott C. Lemon