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To: Jonathan Bird who wrote (23146)2/15/1999 9:30:00 AM
From: soup  Read Replies (2) of 213173
 
>Just as a side note; As a Mac user I'm a little bit irked each time I read someones opinion that windoze has a monopoly. I've been using a perfectly good alternative to windoze for nearly 15 years. At the moment I don't see any reason to believe I wont be able to for another 15.<

Good comments on the merits of the competing sanction proposals, but I think you're defining the the consequences of an effective monopoly too narrowly.

*If* the courts determined that MSFT compelled AAPL to feature Explorer over Navigator/Communicator by threatening to withhold new versions of its market dominating Mac-Office, then it is guilty of leveraging its monopoly in "office productivity" software in order to gain browser marketshare at the expense of a competitor.

This alone subjects them to sanctions. Add the charges/testimony of similar "bad acts" from AOL, INTC, NSCP, SUNW, etc. and you have a pretty nasty monopoly at work.

To quote playwright David Mamet; "Character equals repetitive action."
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