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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (19411)	5/19/1998 1:28:00 PM
From: Thure Meyer	Read Replies (1) of 24154

"But the DOJ is not micromanaging Boeing airplanes nor Sony's high resolutions formats. They (the other parts of the govt., not thr DOJ) are leaving the design up to the companies, and instead are imposing minimum (not maximum) requirements. This is far from the case in MSFT's current dilemma." You are missing the point deliberately (as usual). The issue is not the design of the OS, or what is integrated or not. Although by now you know my opinion about that. If you will, the proper analogy is how the FAA regulates landing rights at airports. Microsoft is in the position of owning the "airports" because of their monopoly on the desktop. That lets them decide who gets priority handling, and even lets them lock out competitors if they choose. It even lets them dictate to companies as large and successful as Compaq what they must do with icons. Furthermore, they have such a competitive advantage that it is conceivable for them to monopolize Internet access as well, thereby allowing them to get a piece of every transaction that occurs there. Technically it would be possible to lock out all competitors by refusing to cooperate in standards committees and not publishing interface specifics. Needless to say, Microsoft would do all of the above and this would be poison to all software innovation. The DOJ is completely within their charter to do what they are doing as well as (IMO) doing the right thing. They are not micro-managing the products, they are indeed trying to enforce a minimum code of ethics. When this is all over and new innovate products start appearing again, there will be a software renaissance with lots of new companies to speculate in. You will be thankful that the DOJ acted. Thure

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