Re: [SLUG] Breaking Up MS - The Fix Is At Hand

[Heracles <renee@nospam.nobbys.net.au>]

z2192363 wrote:

> Although breaking up Microsoft may go some way to increasing
> competition and innovation, what is there to stop something similar
> from happening again?
> <snip>
>
> Whether or not a breakup of MS will actually do anything significant
> can only be told by time I think.

<snip>

> I think that MS can still make an appeal and get this
> decision overturned or the penalty reduced.  Even if it doesn't
> succeed in the appeal, it could delay the implementation of the
> penalty for years.
>
> so what does everyone think?  am i just full of craP? = )
>
> Jin

A.  Due to its financial power, it is unlikely that we will see anything
significant happen to Microsoft in the forseeable future.
B.  Even in the unlikely event that Microsoft is forced to break apart in
the USA there is nothing to stop them moving off shore and continuing to
operate in some TPLAC (as Sir Humphrey put it).

Stay well and happy
Heracles


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