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To: scoobypax who wrote (40907)	4/3/2000 10:09:00 PM
From: Marvin Mansky	Read Replies (5) of 74651

Take your example of the headphones. If Sony supplies you with a set of headphones, they are not putting another headphone producer out of business. In the case of Microsoft, you are given the browser for free and you must use the OS since when you bought the computer, the only OS was WINDOWS, so why would you buy Netscape? You wouldn't would you? So Netscape had to give their product away, and was prevented from making money on it. Simply put, Microsoft used its monopoly in Windows operating system to bundle a separate product that was given away for free which happened to harm Netscape. Does this make it clear?

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