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To: ed who wrote (29209)	9/6/1999 9:18:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) of 74651

The DOJ case against MSFT is about free IE from Microsoft That's not the case and it's not even the primary issue. It's an issue of bundling a new product with a product that holds monopoly position within its market. There are reasonable arguments that can be made on both sides of the issue and most of them have been made here, but the cost or lack thereof for IE is but a minor issue in the case. Consider, for instance, that Microsoft also has also given away a web server while Netscape charged thousands of dollars for their competing product. That's never become an issue in the trial because NT doesn't hold anything close to a monopoly position within the server OS market and this case, which has sliced the definition of "market" along very thin lines, does not concern itself with that market.

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