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On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 11:23:00 GMT, 
amorgado@my-deja.com <amorgado@my-deja.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >First, which applications are you referring to? MS makes a lot more
>> >than just Office. Must they port them all? Surely MS Works need not
>> >be
>> >ported to Solaris?
>>
>> 	If it's portable: why not?
>>
>
>I was asking which applications you want the law to require them to
>port to which platforms. Not that there's anything more horrible about
>Solaris than any other proprietary UNIX.

The problem with this is that it would be very difficult to police.
If MS didn't particularly want to do a Solaris port, they could just
release one that was buggy and thus didn't work very well. 

Perhaps the regulators would tell them to make it less buggy; MS could
respond by numerous service packs and bug fixes... all of which would
fix some bugs, but perhaps introduce others. 

MS would have a great deal of "plausible deniability" that they weren't
deliberately sabotaging Word-for-Solaris. (After all, buggy software
is their SOP).


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