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To: N3WBI3
Microsoft gives away IE to anyone who follows the licensing conditions, same as Linux. Neither is anti-capitalisitc for doing so.

Not in the current business environment, but at the time IE was made free it was an exercise in monopolistic dumping.

181 posted on 02/24/2006 11:46:10 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
Naaa, Giving it away is ok what was not was MS telling OEM's that they could not package Netscape with Windows..
182 posted on 02/24/2006 11:48:03 AM PST by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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