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

To: Gerald Walls who wrote (33209)	11/8/1999 3:08:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Gerald, I guess you want to hear from me after all. DELL owns the actual, physical box they make, but DELL can't take action against you or against me for making our own, EXACT REPLICA (minus the trademark) of their PC and selling it, perhaps at a fraction of their price. Neither you, nor I could do the same with an Ultra without facing legal action from Sun. Get it???? I'm not saying that MSFT doesn't own their O/S. I'm saying that any O/S written for the PC should be in the public domain, including MSFT's. Yes, that means that they would have to divest themselves of the O/S products that they have developed over the years. That means that api's, libs, utils, language processors, testing tools, O/S, device drivers etal. that run on Personal Computers would belong to the public. MSFT would still be free to develop ANY proprietary application it wanted that would run on this O/S. They could continue to sell it to anyone they wanted and price it any way they wanted. If they wanted, MSFT could devlop their own desktop machine and write software for it, along with their own, proprietary O/S and sell it, just like Apple. They could also sell their apps and bundle them any way the want. But NOT on a PC. cheers, cherylw