Re: [SLUG] Modular Windows in Anti-Trust Case

From: R.G. Mayhue (r.g.mayhue@verizon.net)
Date: Thu May 09 2002 - 22:15:10 EDT


On Thursday 09 May 2002 07:53 pm, you wrote:
>
"States Drop Planned Presentation of Modular Windows"
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/09/2213239

Looks like MS does it again!

> --SNIP--
>
> > Maybe, but... Microsoft has continually whined about being unable to
> > strip out X, Y, and Z from Windows. This proves it _can_ be done. Second
> > thing is that Microsoft (even as recently as billg's testimony) has
> > proven that it has been consistently untruthful and misleading. Having
> > this strike against them, then having the judge see this demo... it
> > could work. You take this version of Windows (with the guts stripped
> > out), and make Microsoft publish its APIs, and someone else (Netscape?)
> > can come along and code a replacement for something like IE.
> >

-- 
R.G. Mayhue
r.g.mayhue@verizon.net



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