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

To: Michael Do who wrote (58396)	5/24/2001 5:44:34 PM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Nobody should limit a company's freedom, unless that company is limiting the freedom of other companies. The decision on when this happens is what the courts are for. Luckily, the Internet and public, non-proprietary standards is about to replace the Windows PC as the primary infrastructure, and the Internet doesn't require you to use specific software from a specific vendor. Just look at Linux: 2 years ago, Netscape 4.x was the only real good browser on Linux. Today, there are several browsers, that are all good: Opera 5, Netscape 4.x, Mozilla/Gecko/Nautilus/Netscape 6, Konqueror 2.1.1, StarOffice 5.2. A typical installation like mine has all of these browsers installed. The fact, that all of these browsers work well shows how much standardization can do. I hope that the OpenOffice project can do to Office suites what HTML standards did to browsers - this will enable full competition on Office suites without losing file format compatibility. Lars.