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Technology Stocks : MSFT -- Should the DOJ Break it up?

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To: Dinesh who wrote (34)	5/1/1997 9:00:00 PM
From: Seeker2007	of 144

... >as for NSCP giving away the browser as a "shareware" on a >try-before-you-buy" basis, kid only yourself. Netscape does not GIVE its product away. They charge their corporate customers. However, they are unable to charge the home customer because Microsoft is abusing its powerful OS market dominance by giving away IE for free (and also bundling it with all flavors of MS-OSes) even though by Microsoft's own admission Microsoft is spending >1bn$/yr on internet related programming. If Netscape tried to force the Consumer market to pay for the browser nobody would pay for it and Microsoft's propietary "standards" (sic) would control -

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