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Hi John, I think that with any break up there would have to be new faces in at least one of the companies. If it's just a split on paper, with the same people running both companies, I don't see any changes happening. With new management, there's a chance. OTOH, how close are the individual programmers? It doesn't take much to send a code snippet via email. And if they are paid in stock options... Regards, Peter Dow Dow Software Services, Inc. 909 425-0194 voice 909 425-0196 fax From: "John Taylor" <jtaylor@rpg2java.com> To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 9:33 PM Subject: RE: no Java in XP Windows > Chris, > > > I think that Judge Jackson was probably right in the first place when he > > said three companies, one OS, one application, and the other Internet > > products and services. But, the Justice Dept. felt that two > > companies would > > be sufficient. I believe that meant OS and "Other stuff." > > > > Honestly, I have to say that this seems like a workable solution. I agree > > that it really doesn't cure any of the things that happened in the past > > (i.e. Netscape might not be able to recover from what happened to them, > > WordPerfect same), but it would open the market to competition and would > > force Microsoft(s) to adopt a policy of competing on technical merit. > > How would breaking them into three companies be any more effective than two? > > > John Taylor > +--- > | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! > | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. > | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com > +--- _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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