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To: Petz who wrote (98742)	3/16/2000 3:17:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571055

Petz, 2 points: 1) I like the idea of a functional clone, but nobody is going to get excited (in the stock market sense) about such talk without somebody major backing it up. And I don't see any major players likely to do so. It might evolve on its own, from smaller players, the way the free software movement does things, but there's no way I can see that any such evolution would match the x-box hype, or generate much buzz in the markets. I'm still somewhat astonished that everybody's paying so much attention to what Microsoft says it will ship a year and a half from now. 2) As a long time follower of the Microsoft antitrust saga, I think any idea of DoJ forcing Microsoft to distribute X-OS is much, much more hypothetical than the x-box, which is itself still pretty hypothetical in many ways. In the current suit, DoJ wants very much to avoid detailed conduct remedies, having been burned there in the past. DoJ taking any kind of preemptive antitrust action against vaporware is something I just can't see. Cheers, Dan.