[Am-info] Corel serves up Windows apps on Linux?

Lewis A. Mettler lmettler@lamlaw.com
Thu, 06 Jan 2000 13:44:23 -0800


I meant divestiture of networking technology, internet technology, Word,
Excell, Access, MS-SQL and possibly others.  Stock ownership in all
other companies should likewise be eliminated.  AT&T, Inprise and Apple
investments should at least be eliminated.

By divestiture I mean complete separation of the product from the OS
which is far more effective than simple unbundling and necessitates
unbundling as well.

There is absolutely no reason why home computer users must pay for
networking technology.

There is absolutely no reason why any one should have to pay for
internet technologies either.

All consumers must be absolutely free to buy or not buy any technology
based upon their particular need for that technology and based upon
their choice of brand.

If bundling remains, monopoly power remains intact and totally
unaffected.

Paul Rickard wrote:
> 
> lmettler@lamlaw.com
> 
> >A complete divestiture is best for the industry.  Complete unbundling is
> >a far second.
> 
>    Welcome to my side. Lets work on the best (also easiest to figure out)
> solution rather than continually wasting time on the 'far second' and
> much more complicated issue. Divesture. Personally, I would be happy with
> a forced selloff of all telecom investments made since the beginning of
> 1998. Do that, publicize OEM contracts/fees and then clean up the
> language of EULAs. Those are not difficult to do, and they would have the
> most impact. If Judge Jackson forced Microsoft to do those three easy
> things, we could all pack up our anti-Microsoft efforts and go do more
> productive things. Anybody on the list have a real problem with my
> suggestions?
> 
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http://www.lamlaw.com/ (detailed review of the Microsoft antitrust
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