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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (19025)	5/13/1998 7:15:00 PM
From: Alan Buckley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

[The problem is, the individual does not have the choice of what OS is delivered on their PC. This is made by the hardware vendor for them.] When you buy SUNW hardware you get a SUNW OS. When you buy AAPL hardware you get an AAPL OS. No choices there. If I want a MSFT OS I have a choice of hundreds of hardware vendors. These competing vendors are the reason PCs cost less than SUNWs or AAPLs. Of course, both SUNW and AAPL could compete with PCs if they opened up their systems to third party hardware vendors, but both have refused to do so because their profits on their bundled hardware are significant. Picking MSFT out of this picture as the danger to consumers is quite a stretch.