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nah... open source is only a temporary threat for ms, and only in their server division. If they really wanted to, they could get rid of it by other means. It's not a huge market, anyway. OTOH, the entertainment market (Windows media, xbox, webtv, whatnot) is much more lucrative, and would be damaged severely by the hollings bill. Finally, the bill would hurt the long-term ms interests. They, not the government, want to control copying on their OS. Then, they can dictate who can have copy controls and for what price. Having a government-mandated system takes that away from them, thus nullifying the business opportunity. The consumer is screwed either way, assuming they use windows. Now, an industry solution (preferably software-based) would be much better than anything else, since free OSs would not be affected much.

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