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| DATE | 2003-08-17 |
| FROM | Sunny Dubey
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] IBM, Bankers at Odds Over OS/2 Migration Path
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On Sunday 17 August 2003 01:27 am, you wrote:
> Because the government is still watching them. They had every
> intention to do so otherwise and are growing slowly bolder
> as the move from the anti-trust case.
The would never do so because ....
It would break hundreds of billions of dollars in software. This would hurt
poor countries attempting to modernize, and come under criticism by the
UN/ICJ.
It would break their own software pretty badly and cause an internal mess
within the microsoft organization itself. (MSFT sure loves to break things,
but not to that extent.)
It would cause microsoft to become incompatible with their own tools they get
the job done with. (Microsoft is a smart company, they use lots of UNIX
everywhere to get the job done.)
It would cause MSFT more of a hassle, and MSFT more money, and more negative
publicity, to be worth the money.
Use some common sense.
Sunny Dubey
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