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

To: techtonicbull who wrote (43905)	4/29/2000 7:17:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 74651

tb:The reason they didn't opt for open source code is that they new it would wind up being a fiasco. Who is going to make heads or tails of 31 million lines of code after just looking at it for the first time. It is useless to anyone else for years. Worse yet it would get totally corrupted in the hands of a new owner. On top of that there is the problem of copyright. And if this is such a boon to the consumer how come every poll I have seen is like the one on government friendly liberal MSNBC: Do you agree that Microsoft should be split in two? * 43339 responses Yes 17% No 83% Survey results tallied every 60 seconds. Live Votes reflect respondents' views and are not scientifically valid surveys.