Z:gnu-www-ja-ms-doj-tunney--43ad77-The District Court found that/en

The District Court found that &ldquo;by itself, Linux's open-source development model shows no signs of liberating that operating system from the cycle of consumer preferences and developer incentives that, when fueled by Windows' enormous reservoir of applications, prevents non-Microsoft operating systems from competing.&rdquo; (Findings of Fact, November 5, 1999, &para;50.) (referring, confusingly, to the combination of GNU, Linux, and other programs simply as &ldquo;Linux.&rdquo;) The District Court correctly found that in order to compete effectively with Defendant in the desktop operating systems market for Intel-compatible PCs, systems equipped with the free software operating system should be able to interoperate with &ldquo;the enormous reservoir&rdquo; of Windows applications.