Leveraging a monopoly to avoid competition on merits is illegal
That may be so, but who is to decide which browser has more merit, IE, Netscape, or some other? And who's to say why Microsoft creates leading edge products designed to accomodate and work the way modern internet-centric PC users work? Personally I've always used IE, and never had any complaints. I thought it was interesting where I read that you have heard complaints from people running IE, and so recommended Netscape....for me it's the opposite: I have seen posts here on SI where people complained vehemently about Netscape's browser, and happy IE users responding to recommend IE.
So your comments about that are flawed. So are we going to have the DOJ break up MSFT based on the comments of an internal memo, but NOT on the merits of what MS has actually done, which is to see IE exist in an environment in which Netscape had a 60% market share? That's just one more curious example of the hypocrisy of the govt's case against Microsoft - the government wants to rest their "evidence" on words on memos, not probable market truths.
re Attorney General Janet Reno: "The Internet is an immensely popular medium for communication, commerce, and the information flow of the 21st century. No firm should be permitted to use its monopoly power to develop a chokehold on the browser software needed to access the Internet."
You're not really helping the Netscape case there you know: Netscape at one time held an 85% market share of the browser market, and still has a majority 60%, according to recent projections! Talk about the government as bumbling fools, making comments about "developing a chokehold on the browser software needed".. I sure hope Microsoft lawyers are listening in here.
As for Bob Dole's comments....nothing of substance there, just typical yada yada feel-good rhetoric. |
