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To: Dave who wrote (60646)	8/16/2001 4:09:23 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (1) of 74651

I am a Sun booster (though not a cheerleader who thinks Sun can do no wrong). I haven't posted on this thread before and probably never will again, since I don't enjoy vapid arguments. But Cringeley's piece deserves a comment. Microsoft has done a lot of slimy things in their time, but making an anticompetitive modification to widely-used software and billing it as a Service Pack may just be a new low (or at least a candidate...there are a lot of contenders). A service pack is supposed to make things better. It's not supposed to make things stop working because the crippled functionality, which may well have been useful to the customer, doesn't fit in with Microsoft's long-term anticompetitive strategy. Service pack? In the service of whom? As Cringely observes, nothing gives the lie to MSFT's incessant, transparent mantra about doing what's good for the customer as effectively as a super-sleaze move like this. I hope the DOJ takes very careful notice of this stealth abuse of monopoly power. It's exactly what the gangsters who run Microsoft are justly infamous for, and convicted of. --QS

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