PRNewswire: Linux Expert Reacts to Government Efforts to Split Microsoft

[ Thanks to Kevin
Reichard for this link. ]

“Mark Bolzern, president of the world’s largest e-commerce
supplier of Linux products, said today’s Department of Justice
proposal to split Microsoft Corp. in two could backfire.”

“You’ll have two bad boys instead of one,” said Bolzern. “If
the breakup of Microsoft eventually happens and government
monitoring stops, the two divisions are likely to go back to the
old Microsoft tactics.”

“Bolzern, president of LinuxMall.com, said the other possibility
resulting from today’s action is that the case becomes tied up in
appeals for several years and nothing is really accomplished.”

“Bolzern said no matter what happens in the Microsoft case, the
end result will show that people are tired of the operating system
dominance of Microsoft, and Linux will continue its rapid increase
in marketshare and importance as a viable alternative operating
system for businesses and individuals.”

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