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To: Dominic Harr
IE is a free product and should be, just like notepad and calculator. Media Player? Same thing. It plays simple files, nothing complicated here. Why shouldn't it be free.

The Linux crowd crows about all the free stuff they us on Linux.
181 posted on 09/17/2003 9:50:29 AM PDT by PatrioticAmerican (Read Travis McGee's Book! www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: PatrioticAmerican
IE is a free product and should be, just like notepad and calculator.

Hey, I'm just pointing out MS's business model -- find a product of another company that is successful, then tie that product as closely to the Windows OS, then use fraud, coercion, FUD, predatory pricing, marketing, purposeful breach of contract, etc to destroy the original company, so that there's no danger of having to compete on equal terms.

Every product you just mentioned uses this same business model.

182 posted on 09/17/2003 10:04:03 AM PDT by Dominic Harr
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