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Globe and Mail: What light through yonder Windows breaks?

[ 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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