Re: Should the Fed Gov break up Microsoft? No

[the.cat.in.the.hat@usa.net]

>Here's an analogy.  Imagine there is a single car company.
The car company is a monopoly.  The car company has
never made tires before.  A brilliant upstart company has
invented a new tire technology.  They make the best tires
in the world.  The consumers are happy.  But now the car
monopoly thinks that tires are the future.  The car monopoly
brings out its own tires.  The tires suck.  Left to competition,
the consumer always chooses the tires from the upstart
company.

But:  a tire is a tire by any other name. Same with a browser. They both 
do the same thing, well, that is, display web pages. The integration of 
the browser to the os, may be a bad thing, letting internet integration 
being an excuse for putting their browser there. What Microsoft should 
have done _is_ to integrate with the internet, but letting the consumer 
make the choice of browser; eg forward, back, location-box to 
internet-address et. al. is all very useful, but to play fair, they should 
keep ie out of it. ie is pretty good though, in my opinion.