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Re: Boycott Microsoft

From: Rick <nospamhattonr_at_aug.com>
Date: 1998/05/21
Message-ID: <19980521183813175216@ts2-13.aug.com>#1/1

Martins Skele <skele_at_tc.fluke.com> wrote:  

> The truth is that no one is being forced to buy anything from MS.

Read: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/press_releases/1998press/1764.htm

> The contention that contracts requiring IE to be preinstalled on bundled
> computer systems somehow harm the public good is BS. Perhaps we should
> make MS pay the end customer for using up 40MB of their precious disk
> space? That's about $2.

I dont want IE. I dont like IE. I WANT to use my Mac at home to use Navigator to go to the Disney Blast site.

Supposedly VERY recently, you MAY be able to get Nav bundled, but that only happend because of the publicity and the (then) threatened suit.

Again, read: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/press_releases/1998press/1764.htm

Received on Thu May 21 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT

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