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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (22067)	12/9/1998 1:39:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

So formulated, this is much more than an argument about judicial competence to engage in the kind of regulation of software design that the D.C. Circuit was talking about. It suggests that no governmental body has the competence, and, if we value a free society, no government body should be allowed, to make this kind of choice by decree, at least in the absence of proof that Microsoft's tendered technical justification of, and proof of consumer preference for, integration is a sham. The problem with this statement is that since there is no consumer advantage to integration, there can be no consumer preference for it. What some consumers have a preference for is bundling the browser, not integration.