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

To: Daniel G. DeBusschere who wrote (60599)	8/15/2001 12:50:47 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Daniel, there is no free open market for operating systems as long as there is a monopoly OS that is TIED to the dominant application programming interfaces and the dominant Office software. If Windows and the WIN32 SDK were separated, so that an open source initiative maintained the SDK, which would be ported rapidly to various operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X, Palm OS, and Solaris, THEN there would be almost be a free open market for computer operating systems. If Microsoft's Office apps and other software products were also separated from the OS and API groups, THEN there would be a free open market for both operating systems and for software. Your argument that anybody can write an OS and therefor the market is free is like the old AT&T defense that anybody is free to develop there own phone system and lay cable and compete. It's charming in an Ayn Rand kind of way, but utterly false. Dave