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To: Robert Winchell who wrote (344)	11/30/1997 9:21:00 PM
From: Kal	Read Replies (1) of 1600

Why can't you "go back"? Are you saying if you moved to Mac or UNIX from Windows you could go back? If you upgraded to win95 from DOS, could you install DOS on top of the same machine and maintain the settings you had in win 95? Same for moving from win95 to NT? I guess I'll assume you are a contract lawyer, or else you know of some previous case where MS was convicted of illegal business practices. Whether MS was previously convicted is irrelevant to the validity of the current DOJ case and MS current practiced (contract tying one of them). If I ask you: is killing people ok? is selling drugs illegal? Whatever your answer would be, I guess I'll have to assume you're either a criminal lawyer, or a drug law specialist. Netscape has 80% of the browser market, so it must be a dangerous monopoly. Sun has a vast majority of web servers (75-85%), so it must be a dangerous monopoly. I guess it's wrong to be succesfull. Netscape's or sun's market share does not dictate or limit end user's choice of OS or software. That's what MS is trying to do with IE4 and it's other products; to lock you into their line of products (MS standards), and once you make a commitment, it is too expensive to get out. MS as usual realizes industry standards then empraces, extends and deforms them. Why should it follow the industry anyway?

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