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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (846)	5/8/1998 10:07:00 AM
From: Robert Winchell	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. Almost. My position is that Microsoft, as a company, has the right to put anything into their product they see fit, as long as they are not violating copyrights or patents. I don't think it's any different than any company putting features into their product to compete with any other company. The fact that doing so, in MS's case, will hurt other companies is a fact of doing business. When you have a business, you have competition, plain and simple. Some of that competition may be huge and powerful and may have the resources in place so that I may have no chance of competing. It's called capitalism. And you don't think that's anti-competitive behavior? No, I think it's the definition of competitive behavior.