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

To: Ritch who wrote (33229)	11/8/1999 3:45:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Ritch, Try to copy INTC's pentium chips and see how fast you get sued! It is true that you can design your own chip to do the same thing, but INTC does not supply the internal code to make it easy for you. Sure you can. That's what AMD does. You don't have to get manufacturing methodology from INTC. That means that the hardware is an OPEN SPEC. I certainly couldn't make a chip to compete with a Pentium, but I could buy a Pentium and make my own PC with any components I wanted. The key is the x86 spec, assembler and bus design. The PCI cards can be most certainly proprietary, but they have to talk on the PCI slot, which is open-spec. If you put an O/S into the public domain, you will begin to have many flavors of this O/S as everyone starts to make their own versions This is certainly a concern, but not one that couldn't be prevented. There is no requirement that the O/S become non-standardized, especially if there is no profit in doing so.