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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire
MSFT 487.55+0.1%Dec 30 3:59 PM EST
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To: Robert Winchell who wrote (472)12/16/1997 12:57:00 PM
From: Kal   of 1600
 
>>MS has the right to do anything they want. If they want to sell you a product that
links diretly to their homepage, THEY CAN!. It's called capitalism - look into it.

If you don't like their products - DON'T BUY THEM!!! Stop telling me what I
want as a consumer and let me decide - not you, not the goverment.

Sure they have the right. But I think it is against US law to contract tie. Ie, tell manufacturers, you can't get our OS unless you bundle our exp. This is leveraging monopoly. It's capitalism maybe, but anti-competitive.. If every company is allowed to do this we'll end up with communism with a twist: it's not the government that controls, but the one ar two big companies. your choices become just limited as much.

Maybe we don't see this now, but I see it if companies like MS are allowed to be such predatory.

Sorry but the government will have to decide, it is not the law of the jungle. I've decided already.
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