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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: [QB] I wonder whether Microsoft would allow a company like Netscape to pay some extraordinary fee to become the default web browser bundled with Windows 2004, say. It wouldn't really be in Microsoft's best interests, and I kind of doubt they would. Perhaps Microsoft has the [i]legal[/i] right to implement this kind of strategy, but laws are made to serve the will of the people and if there is anything the last hundred years have taught us, laws will change. The question becomes: 'Should a company like Microsoft have that kind of power?' Does it benefit the population at large to allow them to do this? How would the company suffer if the situation were different? How would the industry be different if this were to change? As I explained before, I happen to think this sort of thing tends to stiffle innovation. I'm also concerned about susceptibility to viruses and hackers. If some diabolical genius bent on world domination (or more likely some bored kid grasping for anarchy) discovers some clever new way to attack computer systems by exploiting a tidbit of legacy code that's in every product MS puts out, that person could cripple the entire world's computer systems. As in nature, there is strength in diversity, and I don't think Microsoft is fostering an environment for diversity. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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