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Strategies & Market Trends : Why the markets will continue higher...
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To: Cage Rattler who wrote (705)5/20/1998 2:51:00 PM
From: yard_man  Read Replies (1) of 745
 
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demanding Microsoft include in their packaging a competitors product.<<

I don't agree with this and am not sure that this is what DOJ is advocating -- this is how Gates characterized what DOJ wants. I think that MSFT ought to have to sell the product separately and not grossly under cost.

Certainly, we do this with respect to other companies when we accuse them of dumping -- the charge is the same, selling something under cost. This is complicated in the current case in that MSFT also provides the OS which the browsers are dependent on.

I don't know how DOJ can practically do what it needs to do to level the playing field. It's a difficult issue. Perhaps when more software is actually purchased over the internet it won't be such an issue. Perhaps the DOJ's option has been limited by MSFT tactics.
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