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To: fuzzymath who wrote (25187)	12/21/1999 1:25:00 AM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 64865

MSFT blackmails its customers, unlike T, and also unlike IBM. You have it backwards. T won't even talk to M$ unless they supply source code. AT&T incidentally repackages that information and resells it to Sun so it can be integrated into the back end. IBM is another story altogether. They're a vertical company that *shouldn't be (IMO). Information wants to be free. It's a central tenent of the global network. M$'s business model doesn't scale into the new millennium. There's only so much you can do with lawyers. -JCJ