Hey Alex,

>I don't think that even if they breakup in 10 companies, the flow of information between divisions, er, companies will change at all. I think it's naive to think otherwise.

Ahh, but we have a precedence to look at. Look at all the Baby Bells. No way do they share information freely; they are too busy trying to cut each others throats were their markets intersect.

>And regarding the horrors of all the DOSes, I think that was because there were several companies reverse-engineering the same product. You forgot to mention 4DOS. :-)

And DoubleDos, and GEOS, and CP/M-86, and Xenix, and .. and ... and ....