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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (33185)	11/8/1999 2:55:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Please don't be obtuse. Sun bundles what they own. MSFT doesn't own the PC hardware. So it's your position that if a company owns various pieces of hardware and/or software that it's perfectly OK for them to bundle the pieces together as they see fit? IBM owned both the software and the hardware. MSFT owns all the software they've written, but the government attacked them for bundling pieces together. Wasn't one of the big whines that you couldn't by Windows without getting IE? You must agree that since MSFT owns both Windows and IE that they should be free to bundle them. Would it be OK if Microsoft bundled the OS that they own with a free version of a Visual Studio development kit for a hypothetical language that they own, let's call it J, that makes no claims to be Java-compatible but sort of is to the extent that you can write Java code that will run on it but it's set up to make it difficult to write something in the subset of J that runs on a Java machine? It must be OK, because they own all the pieces, right?

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