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To: galileo767 who wrote (62996)11/13/2001 10:22:48 PM
From: Dave  Respond to of 74651
 
Certainly, bundling benefits the consumer to some degree. I've said that. The Appeals Court has said that. The problem is that bundling often harms the consumer. In particular, when bundling acts to kill competition, it leads to the usual problems that exist in competition's absence, such as higher prices (look at Office) and glacial innovation (look at Office). When bundling is used as a tool to extend a monopoly into new markets, of course it's illegal in the U.S. (look at the effect of MS Java and IE on the server market, and the probable effect of Media Player on the streamed media market and other online content markets, and the probable effect of .Net on the eCommerce market).

Dave



To: galileo767 who wrote (62996)11/13/2001 11:02:14 PM
From: John F. Dowd  Respond to of 74651
 
Gal767: That is precisely the point. The browser is a utility almost like a printer,scanner,driver or any other I/O device. The net is just like the keyboard it provides input too the CPU. Why doesn't someone complain aboutMSFT trying to dominate the Keyboard input market? The problem is the critics are so blind with envy they can't see what is really going on here. JFD


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