Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty

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From: Tim Haynes
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:00

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philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (phil hunt) writes:

> Microsoft is guilty, Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!!!!!
> 
> The only think that remains to be decided is what sentence the judge will
> pass. Personally, I favour The Chair, but I will admit there is much to
> be said for a lethal injection.

But how do you apply either to a company?

Is splitting them up into a lot of monopolies all specialists in several
areas (particularly if they're all part of the "M$loth Group", or whatever)
any good?

Would the open-source community be interested in hacking Windoze code,
should (for example) IE5 be open-sourced?

~Tim
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From: "Tim Haynes" <piglet@glutinous.custard.org>
Subject: Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty
Date: 2000/04/04
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