States Filing Alternate Remedy Proposal for MS Anti-Trust Case

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday December 7, 2001 @10:26AM from the on-hemmed-in-ground-resort-to-stratagem dept.

cbull writes: "News.com reports that 9 states and the District of Columbia will be filing an alternate remedy proposal in the Microsoft case later today. This would close some of the loopholes, better define middleware, require Microsoft to continue Office development for Macintosh and to develop a version of Office for Linux, among other things." There's also a Cringely column about the case. Somehow the phrase "Microsoft Office for Linux" has gotten people all fired up. Do you really want a version of Office for Linux? Really?

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Open Source IE too by pyite69 · 2001-12-07 10:32 · Score: 2, Flamebait

Apparently they are also suggesting that Microsoft should
open source Internet Explorer.

It would be nice to have IE on Linux. I wonder what kind of
issues this would raise w.r.t. Windows Media and ActiveX...