Rushkoff on Microsoft
Douglas Rushkoff Column:
“Focus on reintroducing innovation and competition to the browser market, rather than just punishing Bill Gates. Here is just one such remedy: force Microsoft to license its OS to five of its competitors. Set up an auction, supervised by the Justice Department, in which companies bid for licenses to the entire Windows OS at its current stage of development, as well as its source code. Their bids can include an upfront price, ongoing licensing fees - whatever the market will bear.
Then, these five companies can take whichever direction they want in the further development of the OS. They all start with the same advantage: all those Windows-compatible programs out there will work on everyone’s OS.
The best suggestion i’ve seen so far on how to level the playing the field and stop Microsoft’s monopoly…