darkonc's Journal: My proposed MS remedy

Looking at the history of MS, I'm thinking that one way around the whole mess would be to allow MS to put anything they want on the desktop, or in their office suite. There would, however, be one caveat:
they must document and freely license everything -- including APIs, communication protocols and file formats.

If it's added to windows, then we need to be able to see how it's put in there, and there has to be a way to pull it out, and replace it with something else. Microsoft needs to provide to documentation to do so.

The intent here is to provide competitors with the ability to produce competing software that has the ability to co-operate with Wintendos.

MS is allowed to innovate as they wish, but they would have two choices:

• market it as a separate product
• open the protocol to the general public