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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gerald Walls who wrote (33680)	11/10/1999 10:08:00 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

You might be right about getting back to square one. But I think that, in view of the evidence presented at trial, if the bundling of a browser into the system, as if it were a utility integral to the system, prevented a competing browser from being used, or degraded the use of a competing browser, the court would probably not allow such a situation to continue. I see nothing wrong with bundling a browser, PROVIDED THAT a competing utility-like browser could be chosen by consumers. That means the developer of the competing utility would have to have enough information about the system codes to incorporate the utility into the system so that everything works smoothly and reliably. And the developer would have to obtain that information in a timely manner, not weeks or months afterwards, which would prevent the developer from competing on a timely basis.