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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MeGotBeer: [QB] Hmmmm. If Nintendo and Sega (et al.) all manufactured items which could be used with each other (that is, a Nintendo game could be played on a Sega system or whatnot), and then said "you can only use our game with one of our controllers" they would be practicing unfair business practices. When Microsoft insists that their web-browser and no others be installed on any computer using Windows, that's unfair business practice. What right does Microsoft have to tell Gateway or Dell, "hey, when you put Windows on one of your computers that you're going to sell, you can't install any other internet browser except for Microsofts'." Sorry. That's a bit, IMHO, unfair. If Dell, HP, Compaq or Gateway want to put one or fifty web-browsers on the PCs that they're selling, its their business and no-one elses. As for the arguement that all you have to do is DL another browser ... Hey, look, as should be fairly fuckin' obvious (and I freely admit), I'm not very computer literate. Ask Charles how much I bugged him about getting Counter-Strike to work. I'm not going to waste time DLing another browser if I already have one, and I'm not going to waste money buying another browser if, again, I already have one. Microsoft has no right to tell computer corporations who sell computer "bundles" what software they can and/or cannot put on those computers. Doing so creates unfair business practice, and inhibits the market. I hope [i]that[/i] made sense to Rob & Omega. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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