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

[Lewis A. Mettler]

Nope.

Microsoft must be prevented from forcing the sale of all applications
and subsystems via bundling.

Read the examination question again.

Barriers to entry will remain enormously high for all competitors of all
technologies unless the ability of Microsoft to force the sale of all
other products is not completely eliminated.

Unbundling is absolutely necessary.  Also selling the products off is
even better.  But, as long as subsystems and applications are forced
upon consumers by bundling, no remedy is going to amount to a hill of
beans.

Ask Bill Gates.  Why do you think he choose that term to threaten Mr.
Clark?  Bill Gates is not a dummy.  He knows his power is founded on
bundling.

All other companies are precluded from those key markets until bundling
is eliminated.

If you argue otherwise, you are most likely hired by Microsoft.  Either
that or you have no idea how or why Microsoft precludes competitors.


Paul Rickard wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> ======== Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign =======
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Lewis A. Mettler, Esq.(Attorney and Software Developer)
lmettler@LAMLaw.com
http://www.lamlaw.com/ (detailed review of the Microsoft antitrust
trial)