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To: voyager.ed who wrote (5841)	3/3/1998 8:17:00 PM
From: hasbeen101	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

Off Topic We can agree to disagree about whether MSFT should be broken up by the government, but I'll just provide a short explanation for why I believe this. Microsoft dominates the OS market and large slabs of the development tools market and the apps market. For example, Microsoft Office is the only game in town. This is a position that's very easily abused, since the OS developers set the rules for the tools and app developers. So MSFT's OS developers is setting the rules by which their tools and app developers compete against the rest of the industry. The pricing for Internet Explorer is clearly predatory (everybody knows it costs zero to produce) and the sole intention of this pricing model is to bankrupt the competition then gouge the customers. This is not free market competition, it is monopoly capitalism. Just imagine if IE4 came from Europe. The US government would slap anti-dumping suits on them immediately in the World Trade Organization. Distributing IE4 with the OS adds even another layer of market abuse onto this already unacceptable behavior. Like I said, I'm happy to agree to disagree. Just wanted to explain myself.