MS is a very difficult situation. Even though they are broken much
ownership is spread amongst other people. What could be done?
1. Bill, Steve, and others sell their stock and move out. Cut it up!
2. Tell MS to no longer develop applications only the OS.
This will open up some more competition
3. Tell MS to only make applications and not the OS.
What can you really do in a situation like this. There are processes and
laws but those do not defeat human nature. And that was the case with
Standard Oil.
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Peck Dickens [mailto:">peck@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 11:41 PM
To: ">ale@ale.org
Subject: [ale] M$ ruling
This is a little off topic, but here goes....
>From what I have read in the newspaper as well as on the internet, the
judge in the M$ antitrust case based alot of his rulings and opinions on
the Standard Oil ruling that occured 90 years ago. In the Standard Oil
ruling, the company was broken up into hundreds of companies. It turned
out in the case of Standard Oil that the parts were worth more than the
whole. Because the parts were worth more than the whole, the influence
of Standard Oil today is greater than it was 90 years ago when they were
broken up by the government. This is due in large part to the fact that
all of the people/families/holding companies who had controlling
interests in Standard Oil ended up with controlling interests in all of
the baby Standard Oils that were created by the breakup. For Standard
Oil, the agenda remained the same, but was spread out among hundreds of
companies. The end result was it became even easier for them to pilot
thier agenda.
It makes me wonder if the pieces that compose Microsoft are worth more
than Microsoft as one entity...
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