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To: gnuman who wrote (56269)	5/29/1998 6:58:00 PM
From: Time Traveler	Respond to of 186894

Gene, so you say one way is by stifling innovation. There is nothing wrong with more and more features getting incorporated into the operating system. Are you calling this `stifling innovation'? Several years ago, what Microsoft did to other software companies would be considered legal. In fact, Borland has so much of an ax to grind against Microsoft. The government should have stepped in then. Now, today is a completely different story. Time Traveler also suspects a lot of Microsoft innovations have been stolen from others, like Lotus and WordPerfect mentioned by you. Even Windows has the roots in Xerox (copied by Apple), but the web browser comes from Mosaic, a pet project out of University of Illinois. It is still non of the governments' business to tell Microsoft not to incorporate IE into the OS. As a consumer, Time Traveler welcomes Microsoft to incorporate the Office product into the OS as well. As far as Intel's scrutiny by the FTC, that is another baloney. It is like Japanese baseball. Whoever the team is winning finds the strike zone grows proportional larger to the score difference. This is anti-competition. There is no more reward for ones' success. Thomas Jefferson would be very upset today! Time Traveler