“But even though Gates was staying shtum, Michael Cowpland
CEO of Corel, said at a separate press conference, that although he
expected the appeals process to take some time, he hoped that
restrictions were placed on Microsoft in the meantime.“
“Cowpland said: “We would hope there would be some restrictions,
because that would prevent predatory cross-funnelling.” That had
happened before, he said, implying that the future two divisions
would shunt information and code between themselves, thus putting
further pressure on application and OS competitors such as Corel.
Last week, Corel pruned one fifth of its staff and Cowpland decided
not to pay himself a salary.”
“Microsoft did a great job with the Windows standard 10 years
ago but right now we need an open standard,” he said.”