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To: Hal Rubel who wrote (7684)	5/20/1998 11:54:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) of 74651

However, the idea just does not sit quite right for me when there is only one system house on a platform. Especially when that system-house seems to integrate only in-house products to the exclusion of outside developers. If by "integrate" you mean actually including the source code into the operating system then of course MSFT is going to own what they integrate. However MSFT includes many licensed products to install with Windows. Just as WAVO shareholders, as an example. Someone will complain regardless of what MSFT does. You're complaining that they develop what they integrate and exclude third parties. If they buy a product from a third party then someone else complains that MSFT never develops anything themselves.

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