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

[Paul Rickard]

lmettler@lamlaw.com

>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.

   Well, that part gets complicated, as evidenced by our six months of 
postings on the subject. If we can't get to the bottom of it, there's no 
way in holy hell the government ever will. If Microsoft sells its 
controlling interests in AT&T, Comcast, Rogers, C&W and the rest, then 
has its legally-binding-contract control over OEMs and end customers 
removed, the impact of bundling one product with another will be greatly 
reduced. Bundling networks and bundling browsers and bundling GUIs and 
all that are inportant issues, but they can be made non-issues by the 
simple steps I've listed. Dealing with 'what is an OS v. what is not' is 
a hell of a lot more complicated than just restricting contracts and 
forcing a sale of stock. We are, afterall, supposed to be looking at what 
remedy will make the largest impact on Microsoft with the least amount of 
outside intervention.



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