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MS Office for Linux?



> From: John Chambers [mailto:jc at trillian.mit.edu]
> 
> Heh. Maybe you should ask a few lawyers. The is a great deal of legal
> precedent for governments doing this sort of regulation. For example,
> if I buy a package of light bulbs with the usual sorts of screw  base
> that  you  find  here in the USA, I can screw it into an outlet in my
> house and, aside from an occasional "sample defect",  it  will  work.
> This requires all sorts of standardization...

Yes, the government can *legislate* all sorts of standardization.

However, it seems unlikely that the *judicial arm* of the government, in the
course of enforcing an antitrust law, would order a software company to port
a particular software package to a particular operating system -- especially
since this software package and operating system were only tangentially
involved in the original antitrust lawsuit.

--seth
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