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To: Valley Girl who wrote (43844)	4/29/2000 4:30:00 AM
From: Dinesh	Respond to of 74651

VG: P.S. in the split, which company gets the lawsuits? ;-) Why, both. Of course. Such a natural thing. I suspect if the breakup happens, and I think DOJ will settle for far far less, Windows pricing will shoot up. Apps too will go up. NT already comes with an HAL and it was ported once to other platforms, so presumably a good chunk of the code is still portable. But, unless the govt. mandates it, why should Office port to Linux ? There isn't enough installed based worth incurring the cost. But if they do, wow! another lawsuit coming soon!! Regards Dinesh

To: Valley Girl who wrote (43844)	4/29/2000 6:32:00 AM
From: SunSpot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

As far as I remember from the document the browser COM objects go to the Apps company, but the Windows company may use it without paying licenses. If the Apps company thinks a little, it will find out that it can offer a Linux/Office combination 30% cheaper than an Win2K/Office combination. I think 30% is worth running for, and I think stockholders in an MSFT Apps company think that, too. Apple goes into the *nix world with OS X - there are lots of server systems in that market... Apple is not competitive in its current technological state, but OS X could really change that if MSFT is split.