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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (63211)	11/21/2001 2:08:08 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) of 74651

It's not a question of fooling people. Microsoft was initially handed the monopoly by IBM, at least partly as a result of IBM's own monopoly problems with the DOJ. They then maintained it by a long string of dirty tricks, taking advantage of customers' needs for compatibility by deliberately breaking compatibility with competitors' software. Eventually, they were able to use their strength to force sole-source preloads on all the major manufacturers, further consolidating their power. Lately they're even bolder, transparently "cutting off the air supply" of competitors by including free alternatives to third party software with the preloaded OS; that way they can maintain the price of the OS even as the price of every other PC component plummets. At least that's how I see it. Charles Tutt (TM)

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