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

To: sandeep who wrote (45448)	5/26/2000 1:26:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

A remedy of requiring complete documentation and penalty to do so is a good remedy, I think. --- I completely, 100% agree. As a harmed consumer, I feel that a remedy requiring Microsoft to fully document their OS is all the remedy that's needed. That 'full documentation' though is only achieved by one means, and that's publishing the underlying source code. Source code is itself, documentation. That doesn't mean people can freely use or copy the source code. It just means they can read it and have the indentical access to information that the M$ applications folks do. --- M$ could have offered that in arbitration and they wouldn't be where they are today. They offered something that at first sounded as if it could be that and brought the DoJ back to the table, but then it fell way short of anything close to that. Microsoft wouldn't even do that much. That's how bad it is. -JCJ