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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (22036)	12/8/1998 8:22:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

>>> Maybe the government will bring someone in to tie it together later on, but right now, I think Dr. Farber's testimony is missing something. <<< I think that MSFT getting cross examined on this should prove pretty funny. Gerry, if you were in this racket at a technical level you would realize that there are no possible efficiencies from mixing up your product code like a gallon jar of odd sizes of nuts, bolts and screws. Except that it makes it hard for your competitors to keep track of what is going on. From an engineering standpoint, this tactic always hurts internal development, cost of development for 3rd parties, reliability, testing methodology. It costs sales, unless you contend that the price of Windows has been raised to compensate for it. I would like to see them contend that, not that it eventually won't be true. It increases the cost of the hardware required to run the system, because more code must be loaded. It makes tracking and reporting bugs more difficult, which is probably why reporting bugs to MSFT is like shouting down a deep well. Nobody's listening, because they won't be able to tell which module your report pertains to anyway with everything all mixed up. It defeats attempts to produce secure systems. But it does hurt would-be competitors. All of the engineers know this Gerry, even the ones that are lying about it. Cheers, Chaz P.S. A place for everything, and everything in it's place. Especially software modules, please.