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Today I read an interresting article in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/01/cyber/cyberlaw/01law.html";>NY Times</a> about some possible outcomes of the doj vs M$ trial. <blockquote><i> 1. U.S. v. Microsoft: Should it happen that Microsoft is found liable for antitrust violations, the single most important legal event of 1999 will be the decision as to what do about it. The right answer is to make slight compulsory licensing changes to allow the volunteer programmers all over the world who write the free GNU/Linux operating system to release code freely that would make GNU/Linux run Windows applications programs. That way anyone who now uses Windows-based programs of any kind could run those programs either under Windows or under a much more technically sophisticated but completely free alternative operating system. Immediately, Microsoft would have the strongest possible competition in its core market, eliminating the problem of possible coercion of other market participants, and with a minimum of government intervention in industry. </i></blockquote> My fear is that forcing a company change their licensing to ``allow GNU programers to write code to run windows programs'' could turn into a compulsory requirement for Linux programers to include code that will require Linux to run wondoz binaries. It seems to me that every time the government gets involved in trying to help someone the end result is that the people get stuck! Enough of my rambelings, please read the article and maybe we could include a little discussion in our meeting. Have a great day:-) LeRoy -- 0 0 L & R Associates " Home Page: http://www.netaxs.com/~ldc/ _______ooO ~ Ooo_______________________________________________ LeRoy D. Cressy /\_/\ ldc@netaxs.com Computer Consulting ( o.o ) Phone (215) 535-4037 > ^ < Fax (215) 535-4285 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with the word 'unsubscribe' in the subject or body of your message to plug-request@lists.nothinbut.net