I agree we should all be very wary of the idea of the US Goverment in essence taking any kind of property from an entity. It's been done before I suppose with the imminent domain laws. But I don't like the idea at any rate.
Three things, first I don't have a desire to see MS or Windows destroyed or sold or whatever. Because I think the open source way is better and will dominate given time. And I respect their (MS) right to make a buck. Don't kid yourself Larry Ellison (CEO Oracle) would dominate the OS Market the same way if he could. Secondly if you did sell off Windows 98 you had better sell NT too. To sell off Windows 98 would just be a good excuse to dump a bunch of legacy code they need to ditch anyway. Lastly I think MS if forced would dump the windows moniker and copyright change it a bit to make it incompatible with the other Windows and call it something else and would still make MS Office run best on MS Aperatures or whatever it ends up being called. In the end not alot would be accomplished.
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I agree we should all be very wary of the idea of the US Goverment in essence taking any kind of property from an entity. It's been done before I suppose with the imminent domain laws. But I don't like the idea at any rate.
Three things, first I don't have a desire to see MS or Windows destroyed or sold or whatever. Because I think the open source way is better and will dominate given time. And I respect their (MS) right to make a buck. Don't kid yourself Larry Ellison (CEO Oracle) would dominate the OS Market the same way if he could. Secondly if you did sell off Windows 98 you had better sell NT too. To sell off Windows 98 would just be a good excuse to dump a bunch of legacy code they need to ditch anyway. Lastly I think MS if forced would dump the windows moniker and copyright change it a bit to make it incompatible with the other Windows and call it something else and would still make MS Office run best on MS Aperatures or whatever it ends up being called. In the end not alot would be accomplished.