[NTLUG:Discuss] Microsoft - US DOJ -- Final Order

[al]

Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> al wrote:
> >
> > I hope MS in its rush to appeal ends up disturbing the court enough
> > to make the court decide to go with the 3-way instead of the 2-way
> 
> Well, whatever happens, this decision is only a preliminary one.
> You can be sure it'll be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court.
> 
> What'll be interesting will be (a) whether they get fast-tracked
> to the Supreme Court - and (b) whether the Supreme Court even
> decides to accept the case...as I understand it, they don't have
> to.  IANAL though.
> 
> I don't know whether I care very much about a 2-way versus a 3-way
> split.  What concerns me is that this is a split along product
> lines...I would have preferred a split that would have produced
> two identical halves to the company.

I havent heard how the 3way was structured....maybe OS,APPs,&Hdwr
> 
> Microsoft's history of ignoring court injunctions leads me to
> believe that they'll skirt around the restrictions on the
> two companies doing back-door cooperative ventures - which
> could mean that we simply end up with two monopolies instead
> of one.
> 

but this IS a valid argument that I had not considered


> A split in the other direction would have produced instant
> competition between the two halves.  The existance of two
> separate copies of Windoze out there would force the existance
> of Open standards for portability.

this is even better


> 
> Right now, the OS part can still force hardware vendors to do
> things like supporting Direct3D instead of OpenGL - and changing
> the D3D specification drastically with each release.

wow really..........;-)

> 
> Still, it's great to have all these legal types confirming
> what we've all been saying about Microsoft for the last
> ten or more years.

ooohhhhh yyeeeeaaahhhhhhh

> 
> So, how long do you think it would be before the new
> Applications company would start to churn out Linux
> versions of M$-Office?

[insert sly grin here]





thanks for the mentals
aal