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To: Hal Rubel who wrote (8121)	5/28/1998 10:17:00 PM
From: dumbmoney	Read Replies (3) of 74651

So, resistance is useless? All will be assimilated? Today its browsers. Tomorrow its, what, office suites? Then internet search engines? Then access to internet commerce? And then ...? The whole history of OS development has been one of assimilating funtions that were previously considered peripheral. If Win98 is illegal, then so was Win95, and Win3.11, and DOS 6, and DOS 5, and ... You know, when Windows came out some people thought that device-independent printing was a sinister plot to destroy Wordperfect (one of the main attractions of Wordperfect was its extensive printer driver collection). Sounds funny now, doesn't it? There is a natural bias to assume that everything currently in the OS "obviously" belongs there, and anything not currently in the OS "obviously does not" belong. Those of us who have been in the business a while know better. If Microsoft must be regulated (and of course I don't think it should be) it would be far preferable to simply cap the price of Windows, rather than having doj lawyers designing software. Restricting what Microsoft can develop serves no purpose.

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