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To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (30233)2/10/2000 10:22:00 AM
From: Paul Fiondella  Read Replies (3) of 42771
 
I think the concept you are having trouble with is monopoly

Look at it this way Scott. Once upon a time you had companies that controlled the railroads. Let's say you were a real smart farmer and you worked your butt off and you built up a cattle herd which you wanted to ship to Chicago over the railroad owned by the monopoly.

But the monopoly decided that it was going to charge you enough to get a piece of your profits. So what, right, you still got the cattle business. But then the railroad monopoly decides to build a line into northern Montana and set up its own cattle ranches copying all of your techniques for raising cattle and adding some innovative ones you didn't count on, including preferential shipping prices.

You just can't understand what happened to your business. Guess you didn't innovate enough. Maybe you should have concentrated on developing a cow that had wings and could fly to Chicago.

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Once a company is declared to be a monopoly, it cannot be permitted to make its own rules, because any rule it makes will be THE RULE.

Microsoft has to be forced or legally compelled to adhere to open standards. It should not be permitted to leverage its operating system control, via WIn2000, into other areas of business.

The case was pretty clear starting with Win3.1 that they took their OS and made both other applications and presentation managers not fully functional with their OS. People bought Microsoft applications because these applications worked best with Microsoft proprietary OS functions.

This cannot be allowed with directories.

Now what is relevant in your post is what Microsoft does adhere to in the standards for internet directories and what they do not. To the extent they do not adhere to standards and allow for the possibility of developing applications to proprietary enhancements of standards, they should be restrained from doing so by the courts.

BECAUSE THEY ARE A MONOPOLY.
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