[Am-info] papows resigns

[Mike Stephen]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:26:16 -0500, Paul Rickard wrote:

>lmettler@lamlaw.com
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>>A complete divestiture is best for the industry.  Complete unbundling is
>>a far second.
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>   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?

Yup..... It still means that consumers will have no choice of operating system on the new computer they buy.  If 
all computers were available without any operating system, it would tell the consumer exactly how much cost the 
so called free software really is, as well as allowing other vendors to put complete packages together on the 
shelf.  What you are proposing simply makes windows the only viable operating system today and into the future.  
I don't want to see Windows as the only choice.

Simply make all hardware vendors allow users to purchase hardware without paying for an operating system.
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