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To: garrick le who wrote (21214)	11/4/1998 4:49:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Dear garrick: That argument doesn't wash with the facts. Consider the fact that MSFT owns and has owned the PC platform market (80-90%) for a long time yet the OS price keeps going down or more features are added or both. By extrapolation the browser market could expect the same progressive response from MSFT. Additionally one has to consider that MSFT shares the browser market 50/50 with NSCP so where is the dominance. All NSCP has to do is keep coming with a better deal. The money is made on the server side. Why? Because it is on the server side that the users of the software make money. Since it doesn't take a lot of documentation to use a browser it never would have been an item that would have made anybody any money. The folks at home would have just passed the client around to their friends. JFD

To: garrick le who wrote (21214)	11/4/1998 6:16:00 PM
From: XiaoYao	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Once MSFT get a stranglehold on browser market,the consumer will pay more for it and the temporary benefit will vanish. Moreover,these issues affect future innovations and limit new competition from succeeding. Those are all assumptions without prove. How do you know once MSFT get a stranglehold on browser market,the consumer will pay more for it and the temporary benefit will vanish? How do you know what would be happened if MSFT not entered in browser market and NSCP would control almost 100% browser market? Will the consumers pay $100 for a browser? Why not, everyone can't live without a browser and nobody else can product one. You can make future assumptions as you need to prove your point, but that doesn't make it correct. I can make my future assumption too.

To: garrick le who wrote (21214)	11/4/1998 10:50:00 PM
From: ed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

How do y ou know consumer will only benefit short term ? How do you know that once MSFT get a stranglehold on browser market , the consumer will pay higher price on browser ? Do you pay higher price on your PC OS or application programs now comparing what you pay for lotus 123 ? You logics is always assume that a crime will always be committed by MSFT if ..... Just like that you do not buy your son a car by preassumption that he will drink and drive and hit someone on the street. It is funny and ridiculous