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Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft...
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> > We need better, stronger alternatives. We need a plan, because we are both
> > afraid of the same disastrous end. We just have different culprits.
> 
> Which do you have, the chicken or the egg? A 90% dominance
> of all desktop PCs sold is a very difficult thing to
> break into.

I am in full agreement that MS should be cracked down upon, but just not
for this particular crime. It is like Al Capone being arrested on tax
evasion.

Preventing MS from distributing an integrated browser will have no effect
on their market share of desktop PC OSes.

Kevin


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