If Microsoft loses its almost-lost antitrust trial against the US government
and is forced to open its source code for the Windows OS, would be affect
Linux OS in any way?

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From: Arun Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: [LI] Re: [ilug-blr] Re: Times of India articles


> On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 08:31:48PM +0530, Gurunandan R. Bhat wrote:
> > I was in TIFR just before this happened and we took the kernel sources,
> > but thought that the future was elsewhere. We thought that that the
future
> > was in making DOS a 32-bit OS (protected mode, not real mode;
> > multi-tasking, but not multi-user).
>
> What amazes me when we look back in history is that 386BSD was already
> around at that point (1992) and quite well understood. It was probably in
the
>
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