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To: Jonathan Bird who wrote (23146)	2/15/1999 9:30:00 AM
From: soup	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213173

>Just as a side note; As a Mac user I'm a little bit irked each time I read someones opinion that windoze has a monopoly. I've been using a perfectly good alternative to windoze for nearly 15 years. At the moment I don't see any reason to believe I wont be able to for another 15.< Good comments on the merits of the competing sanction proposals, but I think you're defining the the consequences of an effective monopoly too narrowly. If the courts determined that MSFT compelled AAPL to feature Explorer over Navigator/Communicator by threatening to withhold new versions of its market dominating Mac-Office, then it is guilty of leveraging its monopoly in "office productivity" software in order to gain browser marketshare at the expense of a competitor. This alone subjects them to sanctions. Add the charges/testimony of similar "bad acts" from AOL, INTC, NSCP, SUNW, etc. and you have a pretty nasty monopoly at work. To quote playwright David Mamet; "Character equals repetitive action."

To: Jonathan Bird who wrote (23146)	2/15/1999 10:06:00 AM
From: WebDrone	Respond to of 213173

Jon, it's a monopoly. Microsoft has shown time and again that they will use the threat of witholding one portion of their business to force the acceptance of another. They have also shown that they are will ing to corrupt standards to their own favor. Java and Javascript development is a nightmare because of what Microsoft did- and they did it on purpose to torpedo Java. Even HTML is not safe. Just take a look at the "save as HTML" option in Word. Why use the MS character set instead of iso 8859? It seems like just to make my life more difficult, as I try to maintain a web site that stays accessable to all. Just because we can all migrate to Linux when Microsoft decides it is worth while crushing Apple doesn't mean they are not a monopoly. Sorry, but I hate Microsoft right to the core of my being. I have never bought a single thing from them, but that doesn't mean they are not a monopoly. Web