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

To: FR1 who wrote (8111)	5/28/1998 8:12:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 74651

Franz, I agree of course.

To: FR1 who wrote (8111)	5/28/1998 8:50:00 PM
From: Hal Rubel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Writing Code at the OS Level to Exclude Competition at the Software Level RE"DOJ can not demand MSFT make source code available ...Netscape will work as Netscape should on MSFT OS but all Netscape will do is browse - it will not interface with all the new OS code features that allows manipulation of files on the internet, etc." So, resistance is useless? All will be assimilated? Today its browsers. Tomorrow its, what, office suites? Then internet search engines? Then access to internet commerce? And then ...? I think there might be some anti-trust considerations at some point along the line. HR PS: The very act of attempting to fold the Software Marketplace into the OS Marketplace naturally raises the attention of anti-trust regulators. I am mindful of this well worn anti-trust principle: The certain possibility of countervailing market forces eventually coming into play to defeat monopolies in the long term does not count at all in the face of irreparable harm to market place competition in the short or intermediate term. If Microsoft appears to go too far down the OS selective incompatibility path, some portions of OS source code may eventually be deemed Public Domain. HR