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To: J Krnjeu who wrote (6829)	5/10/1998 11:57:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 74651

J K, you're welcome. I'm not saying that my analogy is flawless either, but when there is talk of the DOJ and State AGs blocking the shipment of a legitimate product, that just seems crazy and NOT in the best interests of consumers. The anti-trust laws are supposed to protect the consumer. And I sure do not want Netscape to go out of business. What is best for the consumer is to have both MSFT and Netscape and anyone else who wants, to keep developing cool products like the browser. Indeed if it were not for Netscape's competitive spirit and existence, MSFT would not have devoted so much effort to quickly add new and better features to IE. Net result is consumers have benefited. We need to continue to allow MSFT to develop the browser, and let them ship Win98 on schedule. I do agree though, that if a company such as CPQ wants to have Netscape as the default browser, then the anti-trust laws should prohibit MSFT from refusing to allow them to do that, on pain of revocation of the Windows licensing agreement. I don't doubt that MSFT has been extremely aggressive in the promotion of their product, and I think common sense can reveal where they are crossing over the line. I think it will all be worked out.