[kevkrom]

I'm not saying I agree with it, but there are two possible remedies (if you're going that route in the first place): 1) force Microsoft to stop bundling altogether or 2) make it easier for third-party vendors to provide alternatives to the bundled applications so that users may choose to make the switch for whatever reason.

[Senator Bedfellow]

How does opening the source make it easier for third-party programmers to provide alternatives? I mean, the only way that remotely makes sense is if you buy into the "undocumented APIs" theory, whereby MS supposedly gains an advantage over other application programmers through the use of secret or undocumented API calls. Except that the problem with that is that nobody has, to my knowledge, ever shown that they actually do any such thing in their apps, so now you're reduced to "remedying" a problem that very likely doesn't exist in the first place.

No, I think if bundling is the problem, then bundling is what needs to be addressed. This other stuff is, as someone else pointed out, starting to simply look like the EU punishing success, and so much the better that it's punishing American success.