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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Duane L. Olson who wrote (32974)	11/8/1999 2:22:00 AM
From: Niels Larsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Hi, no, I wouldnt force MS to much more than being open about how they are going to change http and other important interfaces, and to stop others from innovating. They should be welcome to keep the OS closed if they like. Btw, how fast do you think the Web (with all its business) would have developed if there had not been a "View Source" option in your browser? Everyone are grabbing each others HTML code and scripts to make better sites faster. If HTML had been closed, as MS certainly would have made it had they been there first then certainly the web wouldnt have taken off this way. A good example of how open code enables rather than hurts business. Future is the hardest of all to predict, but in 1996 I tried a prototype setup that had a 45 mbit line to Tokyo; we could see each other, talk naturally, synchronize our actions when we wanted to show something, send displays over, draw things. I was surprised how productive it was, almost better than sitting next to a person. Lets say in 10 years time, when young talents gets connected all over more and more this way, then they will team up, do great new things from their homes, the ones with the most demonstrated talent will perhaps be hired by development firms, or just form paid relationships with the users of their programs. Do you think any software firms can survive by selling in house binaries then? certainly not, the amount of programming talent out there will be so great that its much beyond any single firm to compete on just development. But then they'll find new ways.