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To: Robert Winchell who wrote (1183)	6/2/1998 11:11:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 1600

That's easy -- separate it into at least three autonomous companies: operating systems, applications, and content provision (maybe a fourth for "other"). Good for both the consumers and the shareholders. A possible alternative would be to require that the OS be distributed as source code with a license that allows porting, modification, and support by others, with no advance release allowed to internal applications groups and no distribution of the OS in the same package as applications. Then the applications group wouldn't have an advantage as a result of its connection to the OS group. JMHO.

To: Robert Winchell who wrote (1183)	6/3/1998 2:37:00 PM
From: Dragonfly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

The best thing for this industry would be to nationalize Microsoft's code for Windows, and bar it from developing operating systems. It has consistently shown a blatent disregard for the industry and the law. Microsoft would continue as an application development organization and Windows would be taken up by the industry at large, or dropped in favor of another os, such as Linux. This would be a fair and equitable thing to do given the offenses of them and the best thing for fostering development of innovative application software. Of course, most people wouldn't understand why this is appropriate. Dragonfly