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To: Robert Winchell who wrote (845)5/7/1998 5:08:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1600
 
So your position is that as a monopoly, Microsoft has the legal right to target a small software developer and put it out of business by copying the functionality of its product and including it in the OS? I think that's what you just said.

And you don't think that's anti-competitive behavior?

JMHO.



To: Robert Winchell who wrote (845)5/7/1998 6:21:00 PM
From: Dragonfly  Respond to of 1600
 
Absolutely correct. They do have the right to do that. As does everyone else. Except others didn't think of it first - MS did. If Sun had integrated a browser into Solaris or Apple into OS8 (or Rhapsody), people would be carrying them through the streets on their shoulders.

No, actually, Apple did integrate the browser into the OS. Microsoft started this idea after Apple had already released its browser, so its pretty clear they didn't think of it.


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