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To: Mike Milde who wrote (11915)	10/29/1998 8:56:00 AM
From: Big Kahuna	Respond to of 74651

I don't think that in the end, we will see MSFT having (being impelled) to stick a Netscape icon on their desktop next to the Internet Explorer icon. Such a move would go counter to any known logic. For example, I'm a Honda dealer, and a very successful one. I move cars out of my show-room so fast, I can't keep them in stock, and I'm the envy of all the other auto dealers. Should I suddenly be forced to start putting Toyota's and Nissan's in my window because their cars, though not neccessarily inferior, don't sell as well? A little farcical, I'm sure, but you get the point. (P.S. We are only allowed to user Netscape at my work. I just downloaded 4.5 final and it's a really good browser, and fast too)

To: Mike Milde who wrote (11915)	10/29/1998 10:56:00 AM
From: ed	Respond to of 74651

Well, the point is with more than 90% of the browser market in 1995, and said in public by the high level exc of the company in public that NSCP will give away its browsers for free, and NSCP is not up to the browser market, and NSCP is now penerating the e-commerce aggressively , the question is : 1) Is NSCP a monopoly in the browser market in 1995? 2) By giving away its browser free while it had more than 90% of the market , to promote its e-commerce business , did NSCP mis use its power of monopoly in the browser market to promote its e-commerce business ? Is this against the what so called antitrust law ? Then If DOJ hate Monopoly and take that as a crime, then why DOJ helped NSCP to maintain its monopoly in the browser market ? While the misuse of the power of monopoly in browser market to promote its e-commerce business by NSCP is allowed by DOJ ? Is it fair to companies like AOL, Yahoo, Ifseek ..... who do not have a monopoly in the browser market ? DOJ should not have double standard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Otherwise the DOJ itself has violated the antitrust law.