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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (62830)	4/19/2007 2:28:51 PM
From: ohohyodafarted	Respond to of 196921

I do understand the Bundling issue, although I do not agree with the decision. I was using W98 with Netscape Navigator when I got my first PC in 1998. I used it for a couple of months and reverted back to IE because of better functionality with IE. Netscape was not excluded from being used on Windows, it was just easier, and more efficacious to use the product that Windows shipped with. But to the point of "overcharging".... There was a class action against MS in Wisconsin (don't know about other states) which was decided in favor of the plaintiffs. The basis of the complaint was that MS was overcharging users of it's products. The remedy was to send discount vouchers to the members of the class for use on future MS product purchases. This all seems to fly in the face of what the report under discussion seems to indicate, with reference to the pricing issue. As a mater of disclosure, I do not own Microsoft shares nor do I have any interest in promoting their products. I am, however, a happy user of their products.