Comment Ways to break up (Score 1) 312
I've been thinking about this Microsoft thing. As I understand it the 'why' of breaking up MS is that they've used their power to stifle compitetion rather than 'build a better mouse trap'.
So what you want to do is break up MS into different companies. You want to do this to encourage greater market compitetion.
But people don't want to break it up that way. As I understand it they talk of:
An OS company: This does all the Windows OS software
An internet company: IE and all their web business
An Office Apps company: I suppose this would be all their business productivity software
How does this create more compitetion? All the software still needs Windows. Each company is still going to be huge and cash rich. Won't they have the same owners? The same business practices?
It seems to me that if you're going to break them up then multiple instances of the company should be created. As in many companies have the right to develope and sell Windows OS, Office, and IE.
Basically you'd have more compitetion and the product price would more reflect market value.
So instead of MS trying to sell you Windows + Office + MSN. You'd have 20 independent companies trying to sell you their Windows + Office + XXN.
Also I think you'd have to force all of the major stock holders to place their stock holdings in only one of the newly created companies. Nor should you allow the the major players in upper management to collect together in one or a few of the newly created companies.
PS. I'm uncomfortable with the breakup, it goes against the grain of my libertarian leanings. Still, I have a great deal of distaste for MS's business tactics.
PPS. I'm a die hard Linux fan, Debian 2.1r(whatever is current) pretty much 100%. Anybody know of something like "Learn Spanish" for Linux? Transparent Language doesn't run under Wine.
PSS. This is my first /. post!
So what you want to do is break up MS into different companies. You want to do this to encourage greater market compitetion.
But people don't want to break it up that way. As I understand it they talk of:
An OS company: This does all the Windows OS software
An internet company: IE and all their web business
An Office Apps company: I suppose this would be all their business productivity software
How does this create more compitetion? All the software still needs Windows. Each company is still going to be huge and cash rich. Won't they have the same owners? The same business practices?
It seems to me that if you're going to break them up then multiple instances of the company should be created. As in many companies have the right to develope and sell Windows OS, Office, and IE.
Basically you'd have more compitetion and the product price would more reflect market value.
So instead of MS trying to sell you Windows + Office + MSN. You'd have 20 independent companies trying to sell you their Windows + Office + XXN.
Also I think you'd have to force all of the major stock holders to place their stock holdings in only one of the newly created companies. Nor should you allow the the major players in upper management to collect together in one or a few of the newly created companies.
PS. I'm uncomfortable with the breakup, it goes against the grain of my libertarian leanings. Still, I have a great deal of distaste for MS's business tactics.
PPS. I'm a die hard Linux fan, Debian 2.1r(whatever is current) pretty much 100%. Anybody know of something like "Learn Spanish" for Linux? Transparent Language doesn't run under Wine.
PSS. This is my first
