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To: Ron who wrote (47540)	7/8/2000 8:31:04 AM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 74651

Ron: Why would that be ruled in courts here? Is MSFT suing anyone on this matter in the US? Do we live in Germany? Does this court set precedent for the US? If so globalization has indeed imasculated national sovereignty. MSFT will just have to write the code such that unbundling by the dealer will result in a screwed up sub bundle. Also I am sure it voids any warranty of the product. In the US MSFT is being sued by the DOJ for the opposite event i.e. bundling IE with O/S. Evidently it is all right for MSFT to sell a bundled product in Germany and the dealer at his own peril can screw with it any way he see fit. The inference to be drawn here would be then why is the US so upset about bundling (pejorative word being tying). If we were indeed to follow the German Courts then we would have to conclude that the sale of a bundled product is OK and that the dealer can unbundle it if he wishes unless there are "reasonable and legal contractual agreements" that prevent the dealer from doing same. The real question here is what is the practical value of separating IE from the O/S from the dealer's or the consumer's point of view? In any event MSFT will prevail as they have in the past and all of this will simply go down as another "feather in the cap" of Clinton's legacy. JFD