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To: tonyt who wrote (44028)	5/1/2000 1:40:00 PM
From: TTOSBT	Respond to of 74651

Re: "You appear to know very little about the 'development' of DOS, and less about how the 'public demand' had any impact on which DOS IBM, CPQ, etc shipped with the box. The fact is, the public had no choice when they bought a box, they had to purchase MSDOS) If the public wanted DRDOS, they had to pay for both MSDOS and DRDOS, even though MSDOS would hit the bit-bucket." The current verdict against MSFT has nothing to do with DRDOS. Your going back to when MSFT was a $500,000 company and had innovated their marketing prowess! Furthermore I do know for sure I was given the opportunity to choose which browser I wanted to use. I had IE on my desktop when I purchased Win95 I didn't want to use it so I downloaded NETSCAPE from the net and have used it ever since. I think I used IE all of a week and NETSCAPE for years and still do I prefer it over IE. When the DOJ and cry baby naysays try to spread untruths of how I, a consumer, was treated unfairly or need protection from MSFT I cannot allow them to use those falsehoods without at least voicing my opinion against it. I hope MSFT gets away scott free I think they are justified and should win it all. I surmise they wanted to settle with the leeching DOJ and 19 states and were ready to go to court battle with SUNW/NSCP etc. But now I hope all will loss for their insistence against MSFT. They are obviously so afraid of MSFT it's a shame. MSFT is no Standard Oil Corp. who did everything including allegedly murder to get to the top. And they are no AT&T who controlled products and services outside their's. MSFT just protected their own products from leeches and cry babies. Let me just repeat that cause it is the real truth in this case: MSFT just protected their own products from leeches and cry babies!!! TTOSBT