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To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (27750)	8/19/1999 9:46:00 AM
From: PJ Strifas	Read Replies (1) of 42771

I like this :) You are correct and I agree that ANY company is allowed to govern and dictate what they do with their product. <<I don't agree that the example that you cite is a "clear violation" ... I believe that any vendor should be allowed to include any enhancements to it's products. Cars should allowed to include cell phones as standard features. TVs should be allowed to include cable-ready tuners. Microsoft should allowed to include a browser. There's only one problem I find with MSFT incorporating a browser into their OS. If it's part of the OS like MSFT states, integrated into their product and platform so much so that by removing it you render the OS useless or damaged then why do they distribute a version of MSIE, for other platforms such as UNIX and MacIntosh? That's not an extension to Windows, it's a stand-alone product. I just don't see how it can be an integral part of Windows and still have the ability to stand on its own. To me, they would have to say its one or the other. See if I buy that car with the cell phone, do I have a choice to say, hey, I don't want that brand of cell phone? Or is my choice limited by the vendor. Then I have to take that cell phone in order to get the car I want because I don't have a choice. Actually that analogy falls short since my only other choice would be an operating system that is unfamiliar to me and far less practical at this time for me to implement at home. If I had a choice of OSs which didn't require me to learn a new interface (yes I know about KDE and GNOME), or learn new ways to troubleshoot it if and when there was a problem then I wouldn't mind. As it stands, MSFT has me locked in so I can only follow along. Here's another question for you and with your expertise, perhaps you can teach me about this. Its just something I've always wondered about. If MSFT is so into OpenSource then why don't they agree to work with other software companies to create a universal driver model whereby any device driver written for a PC (or even a MAC) could be used by any program or OS? The real bottleneck in this industry is where the hardware meets the software. The Win32 platform has that all locked up. If a device company were able to write ONE device driver that would work with ANY OS because there was a universal specification wouldn't this be a good thing for the computer industry. Perhaps I'm just clueless :) At least I'm not emotional today....yet. Peter J Strifas

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