I don't think they're focusing on monopoly power. They might be more interested in controlling technology directions and stressing out the market a bit. Don't forget that by the time the public found out about the F-117 stealth fighter, it was already a twenty year old concept...been there, done that.
There is also a good possibility that the leak was sanctioned. In the closest inner circles, the word out there has been that Microsoft may eventually orphan its current Windows OS kernel architecture to make way for a new OS that is generations ahead of Longhorn and just about everything else available. Just think, by the time public developers really analyze and understand the NT and 2000 code, the advantage gained from such knowledge might be rendered moot. Imagine, people rushing to capitalize on technology that will eventually be unsupported, while Microsoft is really doing an end run around the DOJ by creating a new platform that is by design airtight, locked down and truly immune from any DOJ or antitrust action. Bill didn't get to be a bill(ionaire) by being stupid.
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I don't think they're focusing on monopoly power. They might be more interested in controlling technology directions and stressing out the market a bit. Don't forget that by the time the public found out about the F-117 stealth fighter, it was already a twenty year old concept...been there, done that.
There is also a good possibility that the leak was sanctioned. In the closest inner circles, the word out there has been that Microsoft may eventually orphan its current Windows OS kernel architecture to make way for a new OS that is generations ahead of Longhorn and just about everything else available. Just think, by the time public developers really analyze and understand the NT and 2000 code, the advantage gained from such knowledge might be rendered moot. Imagine, people rushing to capitalize on technology that will eventually be unsupported, while Microsoft is really doing an end run around the DOJ by creating a new platform that is by design airtight, locked down and truly immune from any DOJ or antitrust action. Bill didn't get to be a bill(ionaire) by being stupid.