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To: Hal Rubel who wrote (7250)	5/15/1998 8:04:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Re A Fair Solution: Empower the consumer as the ultimate chooser of the browser. Allow an uncrippled choice of browsers in the box maker's set-up (Explorer, Navigator, WebCrawler, etc.) Sure, why not? I think that MS would and should agree to that. But of course you can't force PC OEMs to buy WebCrawler or Netscape, only forbid MSFT from having contractual prohibitions against doing so. But the OS doesn't need to be redesigned, it can already handle installing Windoze programs. What's the point of a "special socket" whatever that means? I very much disagree that MS should be forced to disable the built-in browser feature of Win98. Reason being, Netscape doesn't have any patent on browsers. If you're going to legislate away Microsoft's ability to make any improvements to the OS that someone else may be providing as an add-in product, well that's just anti-freedom (except if there are non-MS patents legally preventing such additional features). Car mfrs can improve their automobiles. Just because Joe's Fender Flares produces aftermarket fender flares doesn't prevent the auto mfrs from producing a car with flared fenders. With such a fight over making money off internet programs, perhaps Netscape and Microsoft should give all the profits to the person who truly invented the world-wide-web as we know it through HTML: Tim Berners-Lee. Netscape doesn't have a God-given or Government-given right to survive. If Netscape goes bankrupt, then so be it. It's a competitive world, but that's why we have so many great products out there. Business and the free markets can be brutal.

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