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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (10816)	12/17/1997 9:57:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 22053

Those state attorney-generals are simply ambulance chasers who smell money, as in MSFT money. What's more, they're hypocrites for using Win95, which contains all manner of elements which are not essential to Win95. Why is the so-called Justice Dept not going after MSFT on behalf of Symantic, which is truly a company hurting because of MSFT bundling similar components in Win95 as Symantic sells. Nobody is stopping anyone from buying Nutscape browser software. MSFT is not stopping the box builders from adding on Nutscape browsers. MSFT simply offers to throw in a copy of IE for free, as they intend on it becoming a part of the operating system, just as MSFT has made disk defraggers, file link debuggers (scan-disk, chkdsk, etc.), and backup software a part of the operating system. None of the preceding components are an "essential" part of of the operating system. I hope MSFT "accidently on purpose" puts a virus in the "browser debundled Win98" version of Win98. I think MSFT is on the right track by saying the debundled version "might not work very well". Even those state attorney generals won't want the debundled version. When are those dumb AGs going to figure out that MSFT is simply selling a successful product? Our government has a sordid history of punishing success of private enterprise, and that mindset is still very much alive today. MSFT is seen as evil because they succeed. That success makes the bloated, inefficient governments look stupid, and that makes them mad. DK