Re: [SLUG] Breaking Up MS - The Fix Is At Hand

["Carlo" <carlo@nospam.linuxfreak.com>]

I think people are just mega excited that microsoft is not 100%
un-touchable. They have there vunrabilities like any other company.

For too long they have been the big brother style company, even a small
change is good.

Carlo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Heracles" <renee@nospam.nobbys.net.au>
To: "z2192363" <z2192363@nospam.pop3.student.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: <slug@nospam.slug.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Breaking Up MS - The Fix Is At Hand


> z2192363 wrote:
>
> > Although breaking up Microsoft may go some way to increasing
> > competition and innovation, what is there to stop something similar
> > from happening again?
> > <snip>
> >
> > Whether or not a breakup of MS will actually do anything significant
> > can only be told by time I think.
>
> <snip>
>
> > I think that MS can still make an appeal and get this
> > decision overturned or the penalty reduced.  Even if it doesn't
> > succeed in the appeal, it could delay the implementation of the
> > penalty for years.
> >
> > so what does everyone think?  am i just full of craP? = )
> >
> > Jin
>
> A.  Due to its financial power, it is unlikely that we will see anything
> significant happen to Microsoft in the forseeable future.
> B.  Even in the unlikely event that Microsoft is forced to break apart in
> the USA there is nothing to stop them moving off shore and continuing to
> operate in some TPLAC (as Sir Humphrey put it).
>
> Stay well and happy
> Heracles
>
>
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