Re: Boycott Microsoft

[nospam@deleteyou.net (Robin)]

In article <6jqtth$ohp@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net>, "Dean Black"
<apple10@att.net> wrote:

> Rick <nospamhattonr@aug.com> wrote in article
> <19980518190211204933@ts4-27.aug.com>...
> > Douglas J. Romero <dromero@roanoke.infi.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > I see nothing wrong with Microsoft wanting to make more money. That's
> what
> > > a free market economy is all about. But I can see certain future
> dangers that
> > > should be a dressed how before it's too late.
> > 
> > Can you see something wrong with:
> > 
> > Vendors not being allowed to pre-install a non-MS browser?
> 
> CompaQ is installing Netscape 1.2
> 
> > Vendors not being allowed to replace the IE icon with another one?
> 
> Compaq is deleting the MSIE icon.
> 
> > Web sites only allowing access to IE browsers on W95?
> 
> Netscape is doing the same thing. Our company has warned against using the
> proprietary codes in Netscape and IE, thus keeping people from viewing the
> web site with any browser except the one it was written for. The following
> browers are used MSIE, Netscape, and Chameleon.
> 
> These claims by the DOJ are only straw men to cover up the fact that they
> are trying too protect Netscape from completely losing their monopoly.

What are you talking about? Netscape does not have a monopoly on browsers.


> I use both.

And you are living proof that Netscape does not have a monopoly on
browsers. And before IE, there was Mosaic and MacWeb and a bunch of other
less known browsers. Hell, some people still use Lynx on Unix!

Morbius