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To: sandeep who wrote (63653)	12/7/2001 4:04:31 PM
From: Dave	of 74651

Au contraire. The trouble is that the state AGs are not pesky enough. All they are proposing is (1) to force MSFT to offer a "cheaper" unbundled Windows, (2) to make IE open source, (3) to force MSFT to continue to provide Office for Macintosh, and (4) to bundle Sun's Java. So this would address a handful of specific past wrongs, but what about stopping MSFT from continuing with other instances of the flavor of practices that it has been employing illegally? Specifically, I would like to see them force every other anti-competitively bundled app like Windows Media Player to be open source as well. I would like to see them have to publish the file format for every app they produce, and to provide a file format import/export plugin SDK for every app as well. But they didn't ask me. :-) Dave

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