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To: AFreeBird
If you are advocating that Microsoft be forbidden from entering into a contract to save time and money then you are gravely mistaken. My anti trust teacher Dr. Stephan Walters is a well known and extremely well respected economist. These are not crack-pot theories, but rather capitalism. If you have an opposition to capitalism then just say it.
170 posted on 04/15/2002 7:47:29 PM PDT by Festa
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To: Festa
First off, my reply was aimed at your assertion that Micro$oft created IE to counter unstable software which I believe I have shown not to be true.

Secondly, why should Micro$oft have been allowed to force the OEM's into negating their contract and dropping AOL software? AOL had made a contract with the OEM's directly to promote its product and M$ came in and was going to use its power to force them to drop it, unless AOL made a deal with M$ to push IE. Are you telling me that the OEM's and thrid parties cannot enter into contracts unless approved by Bill???

Did you know that at one time M$ forced OEMs to pay M$ a fee for the OS even if the OS was not installed or sold on a system, just because someone would install an OS, probably Windoze?

And lastly, I just love it when people pull out the old "your against capitalism" line when arguing against a company that behaves in a monoplistic and predatory way. Being a monopoly is not a crime per se, but acting like one is. And Micro$oft has been shown to act in such a way.

172 posted on 04/16/2002 7:04:06 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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