User: !pHant0m

If Microsoft went Open Source....

On: DOJ Allegedly Reaches Consenus on Breaking up MS UPDATED

Breakup won't accomplish anything as far as eliminating the monopoly. What would is to make them open up thier source code. That would give competators a chance to make a compatable system from scratch. It would also improve the chances of Linux taking a larger portion of the market with a version of WINE that could run almost everything! Wouldn't M$ cringe if they saw a Win9x emulator that ran Windows apps more efficiently than the OS they were intended for!! :) I think we would all be appalled at some of the tricks Microsoft has pulled, given a chance to see thier code. An open source Windows compatable system that was more efficient and more secure than Microsoft's would force them to make some changes, or die. Then perhaps we would see something besides the endless facelifts of the Win9x OS. Like a kernel update more than every couple of years? The option of compiling your own components to maximize efficiency? To give you some idea of the bloated code, think of this. Everything in the core of the system is supposed to run on anything PC compatable. How much of the

• compiled code

doesn't apply to your machine? Hmmm? Why not give the hackers that you are endlessly trying to fight a chance to outdo you, huh, Billy?