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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (23595)	11/19/1999 11:54:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Dvorak's sometimes a little cranky, Harvey, but I liked this piece, especially the end. Not everyone agrees that this will be the scenario. Many hope upon hope that Microsoft is busted up in some more fundamental way such as splitting operating systems, tools and applications into separate companies. The most aggressive people in the Valley would love to see Microsoft be forced to turn over its source code for Windows. Exactly how this would work is never discussed. Personally, I also think the greatest thing that could happen to the industry would be to force Microsoft into relinquishing the source code, if for no other reason than to give the geniuses who don't work for Microsoft an opportunity to debug the code. It's the last thing I expect to see happen, but it would be great for everyone who is sick of rebooting their PCs all day long. Yes. Personally, I don't see "structural remedies" doing much good, except for the "clone" proposal, with the sub-micro's (nanosofts?) competing against each other, and I don't think the clone proposal is particularly workable. I'd like to see, somehow, the middle layer of Windows runtime code running on something other than flakey Win9x or 40 megaline NT, but how you get there from here, beats me. Cheers, Dan.