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To: Lost in New York who wrote (15448)	5/17/1998 2:31:00 PM
From: drmorgan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

MSFT is a monopoly. They let someone else come up with WWW (long before IE or Netscape) and then decided they were going to destroy the competition and keep it all for themselves Everyone has an opinion on these matters and the debate is far from over. I think Scrapps is right when he stated the times are a changing but just where it all ends up is anyones guess. My first exposure to the Web came from an OS that gave you no option but to click on their browser icon. Perhaps one could say that was unfair but because the company (IBM) didn't have market share of a mainstream OS nobody noticed. I'm sure if IBM's OS/2 had market share and it gave you their own browser to click on, the DOJ would be after them. Does anyone know if Win98 will come with the active desktop as a standard setup?

To: Lost in New York who wrote (15448)	5/17/1998 3:30:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

Hmm...funny how it's ok when Motorola gets the stuffing beat out of them in the modem wars...via competition from 3Com/USR. But if MSFT does the same thing it's not. As I said...if it's (MSFT) a monopoly..break it up. As for OS & Applications...that too is changing, now we begin to see Agent & Portals and such. As you say MSFT shouldn't be able to combine the application with the operating system...then I guess Burger King shouldn't be able to combine the Bun with the Burger. There ought to be a law! No OS with an Application...even if it ruins the American way. Now lets take out the spell checkers, the formating apps. and all those other innovative things. In the name of fairness! Don't loose track of the fact that our laws only allow us the right to try & fail...nothing says we get success...that must be fought for. Business is war without the guns. Also I've never said that MSFT is not a monopoly...but the question to be answered is that and that only..."is MSFT a monopoly?" If so...do what the law allows. Btw. Where does it say OS's can't contain applications?... you'll not find that anywhere.