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To: Robert Winchell who wrote (560)	1/12/1998 9:09:00 PM
From: Pink Minion	Respond to of 1600

Well, this is the crux of the conversation, is it not? Does MS have the right to try and crush a competitor? If no, why not? By providing a better product, yes. Giving a product away to drive out competition is illegal - at least in other industrys it is. I don't know why software is any different. That is how John D. built his monopoly. I think in the end the consumer wins: MS and Netscape have dueled by trying to make their products better and better, and we get the results. Netscape is trying to be just like MS and they are doing a pretty good job at it (except stock). Consumers/programmers lose. N4.04 interprets HTML table tags differently than N3. I can't even get it to look ok in 4. I'm screwed and don't know what to do. Marc needs to go back to eating twinkies and writing code. Mr. B