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To: ed who wrote (10002)	8/7/1998 8:24:00 AM
From: Mike Milde	Read Replies (1) of 74651

<< Well, if you want to buy a Camry from Toyota, Toyota will tell you if you want to buy a camry, you have to have camry's engine installed. I do not think Toyota will sell you a Camry with FORD's engine installed. For OS, no law defined that IE is not part of OS, so, if IE is part of OS, then what is wrong if you buy OS from Microsoft, IE will be tied together, since IE is part of OS. >> The difference is that there is very little demand for just a car engine. There is huge demand for a good web browser, independent of an OS. No one is forcing companies (including Microsoft) to slice up everything they will ever sell, but laws have been in place for decades that prevent companies from forcing you to buy one product if you buy another product. Disguising it as "one complete product" doesn't get you out of it; any company could then dodge the law by simply proclaiming that its now a single product. Mike

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