Re: Intuit's CEO calls for 'OS neutrality

[Simon Cooke <simonc@jumper.org.uk>]

From: P.A. Petricone <pap@tiac.net>
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>http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2180584,00.html
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>"Calling for the government to impose "operating system neutrality" to 
>ensure fair and free industry competition, Intuit Inc.'s top executive 
>lambasted Microsoft Corp. for its business practices."
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>"Microsoft took issue with nearly all of Harris' points. "Of the nearly
50 
>pages of Mr. Harris' testimony, only 16 pages address relevant
interactions 
>with Microsoft; the rest is speculation or half-baked analyses,"
according 
>to the Microsoft statement."
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>Absent a clear definition of the OS, what is left but speculation?
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>Sandwich, anyone?
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>-pap

You may find this Red Herring article interesting. Intuit, of course,
being one of the KPCB Keiretsu companies.

http://www.herring.com/mag/issue63/news-angler.html

(This is my last posting for a while - I'm ill and intend to spend a long
time swigging Nyquil and sleeping)
Simon
(The views of this poster are his and his alone, and may or may not
reflect the views of the Microsoft Corporation).