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To: WeisbrichA who wrote (16334)	1/19/1998 4:19:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Hello Rich, PMFJI, but I wanted to reinforce your analogy ... and clarify some issues. You stated: I have both Navigator and IE3 on my home machine. One works better for some things. I added IE3 later. I also have WordPerfect8 and MSWord(part of office). As a consumer, I do have a choice. Compaq testimony, however, may prove a case for DOJ at another (not end-user) level. You are completely correct here. This environment allows you to pick and choose to have any, or all, of these applications. Now to your illustration of car radio.... Chrysler, GM, et al. should have the right to use "porprietary" connectors, software, etc., to protect that product even if it is part of their automobile. If I, as a competitor, want to sell my car radio for use in those cars, I will have to match their power connectors, speakers. et.al. . I wil not make it easily done either. (You just apply this to computer hardware purveyors for the past 30 or so years). I continue to stress the moves last week by Microsoft toward Novell. The parallel of what has occurred is that Microsoft has now stated that if you install that new car radio ... you void the warrenty on the car! They have decided that they are now going to forbid you to purchase that other vendor's product. What happens when they decide that installing Netscape is not allowed because it alters "key" file type associations? I don't think is the proper role of "Politicos" to tell anyone what kind of "standards" he must provide for the radio competitors. A marketplace is best served by viable competition. Government, In MY OPINION, has no business getting into it when one competitor finally "WINS" in its chosen endeavor. I agree with you ... to a point. And I do believe that consumers need to vote with their wallets. But when a large portion of the population of computer users have already invested in this product ... and there is no real alternative for business today ... do you allow a company to make these types of moves? You might think that it's right ... but I'm not sure that it's good for the future ... Scott C. Lemon

To: WeisbrichA who wrote (16334)	1/19/1998 9:27:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

>>I have both Navigator and IE3 on my home machine. One works better for some things. I added IE3 later.<< I had the same setup and had only a few problems. I tried upgrading to IE4 and I had a lot of problems. I opted to uninstall IE4 with the IE4 uninstall option. After I uninstalled IE4.0 NOTHING worked! Cold boot did not work. I reformated and reinstalled all software except IE4.0. Then I upgraded to Netscape Communicator 4.04 and everything works fine. Does anyone use IE4 and Netscape Communicator 4.04 at the same time? and without problems? If Win 95 is a good operating system it should facilitate this functionality, not hinder it. Regards Zeuspaul

To: WeisbrichA who wrote (16334)	1/20/1998 12:11:00 AM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Now to your illustration of car radio.... Chrysler, GM, et al. should have the right to use "porprietary" connectors, software, etc., to protect that product even if it is part of their automobile. If I, as a competitor, want to sell my car radio for use in those cars, I will have to match their power connectors, speakers. et.al. . I wil not make it easily done either. What if there was one dominant car manufacturer that had 90% of the market? They could use their dominance in car manufacturing to dominate the car radio market, the highway market, toll-roads everywhere, etc. For example, what if they not only make a proprietary connector with a complicated interface, but they don't even document it? Then competitors cannot replace it, or if they will do so, it could take them lots of time and money to do so, and by the time they deliver a product that works, the car manufacturer has changed the interface again in the newer cars. I don't think is the proper role of "Politicos" to tell anyone what kind of "standards" he must provide for the radio competitors. A marketplace is best served by viable competition. Government, In MY OPINION, has no business getting into it when one competitor finally "WINS" in its chosen endeavor. Don't you think that the government should be concerned about having competitive industries within its own country and look out for the consumer's interests? This is precisely what it is setting out to do. To make sure that there is even a chance for there to be competition.