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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Marconi who wrote (17992)	4/8/1999 8:52:00 AM
From: Caroline	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18691

Hi Marconi, I'm sure the kernel can be reverse engineered, and I'm sure it can be done in a quasi-legal way. I saw this re-enacted on a documentary -- the parties de-briefing the engineers all never know what one another is doing, somehow making the de-compiling and re-use "legal." But accomplishing that, it's not likely that anyone can take advantage of the ability. Even companies with full access to the pieces of MSFT code they need are essentially screwed when MSFT turns a calibration screw one quarter turn. Time to market would be destroyed. FWIW I own MSFT, not CTXS, and don't have an opinion on CTXS' stock price. Regards, Caroline