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To: Robert Winchell who wrote (1245)	6/12/1998 11:11:00 AM
From: Judd	Read Replies (1) of 1600

Cable and phone companies are regulated by the feds for this reason. They are a monopoly right now. BTW, where I just moved from I could get cable from 2 different companies, or one of many brands of dishes, or a microwave antenna service. Lots of choices there. There is soon to be more than one local phone company there also. The problem when running an alternative OS is lack of support for about everything. If the government regulated this perhaps they could force software companies to include drivers for more than one OS. If my scanner, printer, etc. came with Linux drivers it would feel like I have more freedom than I do. Just about all of my hardware came with windows drivers only. My old AMD chip even said that it was Windows 95 compatible, what a joke. There is only one choice that is easy, and its not because of any other reason than its the de-facto standard. I am fighting a battle running Linux. I'm not saying that they should do this, just that I think something like this is needed to make consumers really have a choice. If, and when Windows becomes a superior operating system I'll be the last to happily start using it. Judd

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