O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum, wie grun sind seine Blute.... ;-)
Think about it. Our government broke up a monopoly called AT&T way back
when, and since then there has been fierce competition amonst the telephony
firms. Now think about how that affected the growth of the internet. If
AT&T was not broken up, you know they would have had free reign on internet
communications billing, meaning we would not have had free internet for so
long, or at least such low pricing. AT&T would have squashed it,
unknowingly by monopolizing on it. Well, you see, MS also wants to squash
all kinds of computer and communications technology sofware so MS alone can
benefit financially. And, Mr. Bill is full of it, to actually tell all of
us MS cannot function if broken up. Mr. Bull. So how does every other
lesser organization function? With competition on our tails. Besides, only
one of the two parts can keep the Microlofty name, and the other will be a
different company. That means either M$ Windoze or M$ Office, etc., will be
XYZ Windoze or XYZ Office. And no trade secrets between. As such, it
behoves the software firm, if it becomes XYZ software, to write their
applications for a wider range of operating systems to make money. And for
XYZ Windoze to make money, it may just want to publish it's API to other
operating system firms so the XYZ applications can run on them all. Never
say never....
On 9 Jun 2000, Zoki wrote:
> Date: 9 Jun 2000 06:50:25 -0000
> To: Red Hat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: Zoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: MS Breakup
>
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Joseph T. Tannenbaum wrote:
>
> ->Are you sure? Who started the "computer age" or "information
> ->age" when you could exchange files with almost anyone. Why
> ->do you think the DOJ has a standard consisting of MS Windows
> ->and MS Office? This break up bears no good news for Linux or
> ->any other OS. It also means no good news for IT departments
>
>
> *** Men, you are too much! I've never seen anybody write more nonsense in
> fewer lines of text.
>
> Cheers!
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