Maddog

[Jim]

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On Saturday 14 July 2001 14:28, you wrote:
> Am 14. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Jim so:
> > John 'Maddog" Hall has some interesting suggestions for resolving the MS
> > antitrust case.  Jail?  Regulation as a utility?  I like the ones that
> > promote standards and free teaching from the MS steel fist.
>
> Where do we find his comments?
>
> I think the correct thing to do would be to force them to only write data
> in standards approved by certain standards bodies ( ieee, ietf, w3, etc. ).
> I mean write to anything, whether that be disk or network or anything else.
> No more proprietary formats and no embracing and extending.
>
> That's appropriate because it's the proprietary, binary formats that
> they've used to heavily to abuse their monopoly power. Embrace and extend
> is a substantial part of that abuse.
>
> The problem is that they could take over the standards bodies and though at
> least everything would be open they could still by virtue of their monopoly
> and illegally garnered size they could bully others as well as get
> standards published that are completely in their favor.
>
> For this reason, I say they should be forbidden from participating in the
> standards process for 5 years.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans