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To: Barry Grossman who wrote (91861)11/8/1999 4:20:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Barry, <The effect of the lawsuit against Microsoft is to tell them that they can't add to and thus innovate their existing products.>

My personal opinion is that MS is free to add whatever they want to the OS. Heck, they're even free to call the browser "part of the OS" if they want, as long as they don't make it any more inconvenient for me to download and use Netscape. But when MS is telling OEMs not to bundle Netscape on their systems "or else," that's stepping over the line.

That's why MS is turning "innovation" into a political buzzword. They're trying to divert attention from the real issue, which in this case is the act of coercing their customers away from their competition. By the way, our oh-so-honorable President did the same thing during the Lewinsky scandal (though the conduct of the Republicans made it easy for Clinton's spin doctors to do their job).

Unfortunately, I'm afraid the original issue got lost as the DOJ case against Microsoft turned into something much broader than it should have been. The DOJ wants blood now, since they're afraid that if they made a reasonable settlement, MS would break the spirit of such a settlement, if not the letter. So now things are going to turn ugly, and we could all lose out as a result.

At least Intel was willing to settle early on.

Tenchusatsu
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