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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (18451)	4/14/1998 5:15:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

>>>I repeat: they should just break up the company and save us all the hassle of having to deal with proposals like this.<<< Agree. The logic of partial separation can't be made to work, it's too complicated. Even if you figured it out, MSFT would perpetually be playing the same game as always. The spirit of such rulings meaning nothing. One thing puts them on the same footing vis-a-vis OS info, APIs, and so on - be a separate apps development company like everybody else. If the OS section after the breakup were motivated to distribute core information in a way it is not now, and provide development tools and help in a more industry-responsive way, and along with that we had a more level playing field at the retail level so that the financial rewards of developing new software came back, we could see a general acceleration in applications development everywhere.. Cheers, Chaz

To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (18451)	4/14/1998 6:38:00 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Excellent observations, Gerald. ...wish we could put this up for referendum. <gg> -MrB&#153

To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (18451)	4/14/1998 10:05:00 AM
From: Jay Rommel	Respond to of 24154

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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (18451)	4/14/1998 4:18:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Thanks, Gerald, and as always, it's great to have your informed perspective on this group. By the way, I'm monitoring the mozilla (netscape 5) development effort. Here's a list of the platforms that Netscape 5 has been compiled on successfully: Solaris 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, FreeBSD 2.2, 3.0, Linux 2.0, 2.1, MacOS, WinNT 4.0, IRIX 5.3, 6.2, 6.4, Win95, FreeBSD 3.0, Digital Unix 4.0, NetBSD, OpenBSD, HP/UX 9.05, 10.20. This is by individual developers interesting in this project. It seems to be taking off.

To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (18451)	4/15/1998 9:43:00 AM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

<I repeat: they should just break up the company and save us all the hassle of having to deal with proposals like this.> How would you propose they break the company up? I doubt there is precedence to support this action, am I wrong? If I am right, who decides if and how the company is broken up and what plausible jsutification can be used? The most important question is - what do you do if the spearated parts of the company quickly rise to dominate thier respective industries (which is what I relly think would happen)? Do you set up a commission to break up the micro sections of Microsoft every time they reach x% marketshare or accumulate xx% enemies?