[Random-bits] Slashdot on ACT/Liebowitz defense of Microsoft/ Motley fool on MS too

[James Love]

http://slashdot.org/articles/00/09/28/2016247.shtml
Would you pay $1,000 for Windows? 

Stan J. Liebowitz, a prof at the U of Texas Management School, has
released a screed saying that the world economy could take a $300
billion dollar bite in the ass if Microsoft is broken up. Tales of $2000
computers with Windows costing an additional $1000. The whole 39-page
PDF file can be found here . The whole thing was bankrolled by M$
apologists extraordinaire the Association for Competitive Technology and
should be taken with an extremely large grain of salt." (More below.) 


http://www.fool.com/portfolios/rulemaker/2000/rulemaker000928.htm
Microsoft's Split Personality 

   Splitting up Microsoft might not be a bad idea. How so? Carving up
the company would separate its two personalities once and for all. One
business could do what
it does best -- protect the Windows franchise. The other would be free
to innovate without worrying about stepping on the Windows monopoly. . . 

   By Rob Landley (TMF Oak) 
   September 28, 2000 


-- 
James Love, Consumer Project on Technology
v. 1.202.387.8030, fax 1.202.234.5176
love@cptech.org, http://www.cptech.org