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Globe and Mail: What light through yonder Windows breaks?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 12, 2000

[ Thanks to Kevin
Reichard
for this link. ]

“Breaking up Bill Gates’s monopoly is the best way to encourage
innovation, says Robert Litan, the man who led the antitrust
investigation against Microsoft”

“The best means of promoting innovation is to promote
competition. That means breaking up the Windows monopoly itself,
perhaps in three equal-sized pieces, each with the same
intellectual property to the Windows source code.
With the
monopoly gone, there would be no need for continued judicial
supervision, either of the new Windows competitors or the rest of
the company.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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