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

To: ed who wrote (20239)	4/10/1999 9:03:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

To All: Someone finally realized the fallacy of openingup the MSFT OS code. See below- "A Windows source code release would also be worthless, Tiemann. One of the reasons the Linux development effort works, he said, is that the Linux kernel is only about a half million lines of code, designed from the very beginning to be modular and easy to understand. Windows, he said, would be upward of 30 millions lines of code, developed over years without any effort to make it easy for an outsider to understand." Who could digest it? Would the government insist that MSFT innovate no faster than the competitors could digest 30,000,000 lines of code? I have gone back into programs I have written myself and gotten lost. Would the government require MSFT to send a staff along with the code to interpret it to the new owners? MSFT rules until their earnings falter and with all the irons they have in the fire that doesn't look like it will happen anytime soon. JFD