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To: Mike Milde who wrote (10015)	8/7/1998 7:37:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) of 74651

There is no one car manufacturer that can control the radio industry and the roads. If GM owned the roads and the radio stations, then you'd see abuse there also. All cars drive on all roads, and that's why car companies cannot lock users into their products, because its easy to move to a competitor's product. All browsers browse on the same Internet. MSFT doesn't own the Internet or all the web sites. It is not easy to move to a competitor's web browser if you are given Windows 98. In fact, Microsoft will tell you it isn't even possible with Windows 98. After all, the web browser in Windows 98 is an integral part of the OS. The OS doesn't function without it. Wrong. Simply install Netscape and set it to be the default browser and there you go. IE is still installed and portions of it are still in use by the OS, but Netscape will pop up when you double click a HTML file or click a link in email.

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