From: "Geo." 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
news:3ed20055{at}w3.nls.net...
> > attempts to stop competition by creating incompatibilities would result
in
> > loss of copyright and release of all source code to public domain, no
other
> > penalty would be needed.
> >
>
> Yeah but Rich & his lobbying minions would just accuse the gov/ people
> in general of "copyright theft" or possibly even
"copyright child abuse"

Seems to me if I were MS I'd be willing to risk being split in two or being
fined, but would I be willing to risk losing control of Windows?

> Again though...public interest vs private "capital" inc
"Intellectual
> capital" would mean that those with money to lose from this arrangement
> would pay to ensure it doesn't happen.
>
> "We lose money you lose campaign contributions...."

but they don't lose money, I'm not proposing fines, I'm proposing loss of
copyright, ie loss of control. Copyright is an agreement between authors
and inventors with the public, break the agreement and there is no reason
for the public to continue honoring their part of that agreement.

Bill Gates doesn't care about money, he's got plenty, but would he care
about control? One loss results in a permanent status of public domain,
TILT, game over. You learn real quick not to beat on the pinball machine.

Geo.

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