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To: ed who wrote (9830)	7/31/1998 2:23:00 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 74651

Assume Mercedes is a monopoly as a premise of the analogy -- I know that Mercedes is not in real life a monopoly. Maybe it would be clearer if we just call it XYZ car company that is the sole producer of automobiles. There are no Fords, no Chevvies, etc. in this analogy world. Perhaps because of the antitrust laws, there aren't many actual monopolies to use as analogies, so it's necessary to do such thought experiments. Work with me here. IE has in the past been (still is, I think) available separately from the OS. It is also available for some flavors of Unix. Windows and Unix have both historically run without it. That doesn't sound very integrated to me. An engine is necessary to the function of conventional automobiles; a browser is not necessary to the function of conventional OS's (unless such necessity is artificially created). But that's JMHO.