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To: Keith Howells who wrote (7307)	5/16/1998 9:38:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Keith - But it's clear that the DOJ is not thinking about consumers at all. Consumers have always been able to freely purchase and use software for the DOS/Win95 platform. In fact, MSFT has made sure that developers have the best tools available to develop products for the Win95 platform. It's all about Netscape and always has been. The "smoking gun" to prove this is the government's ludicrous demand that MSFT bundle a copy of Netscape Navigator with each copy of Win95 shipped to PC vendors - as if! That is so pathetically transparent. Like it was quoted by someone in one of the articles I posted - What about the other competitors? WebCrawler, for instance. There are other browsers also. I've contended all along that this was all about the government promoting Netscape Navigator, and now we see this is true. Imagine the disadvantaged position that puts other browsers like WebCrawler in, when the Federal government (the anti-trust division, no less!) is exclusively promoting Netscape. Something smells.

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