Re: Boycott Microsoft

[cirby@magicnet.net (Chad Irby)]

roger@. (Roger ) wrote:

> someone claiming to be Rick wrote:
> 
> >Can you see something wrong with:
> >
> >Vendors not being allowed to pre-install a non-MS browser?
> 
> I might, if it were happening.  Which it isn't. Sony, as an example,
> bundles both IE and NS

...and Dell and Compaq, on the other hand, have been subject to MS
strong-arm work due to their wanting to bundle other software with their
machines.

It has been happening.

> >Vendors not being allowed to replace the IE icon with another one?
> 
> No, since there was a contract saying that they would not.
> 
> >Web sites only allowing access to IE browsers on W95?
> 
> If that is a choice that the webmaster made, who are you to say that
> they should change it?

If they made it through an unethical (and, in this case, illegal) bonus
paid by Microsoft to keep that site from being accessed through
non-Explorer browsers, they're setting themselves up for troubles in the
future.
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Chad Irby   cirby@magicnet.net
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/  That future generations will, for some 
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