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In article <3ueqig$l...@gate2.internet-eireann.ie>,
Peter Cox <pc...@orca.ucd.ie> wrote:
>I don't know what you mean by "wrong". I know for a fact that to use MSN you
>need to buy Microsoft Plus, which is an add-on package for '95 with
>various other utils on it. 

Think about what you are saying. The Justice department is considering 
bringing an action against Microsoft because they are planning on 
bundling MSN with Win95. If they are forcing you to buy something else in 
order to access MSN, not only are they not giving themselves an "unfair" 
advantage, but they are in fact putting themselves behind Cserve and AOL 
who give out their access software everywhere you go.

People, I know we want to nail Microsoft for everything under the sun, 
but we really need to pick on side or the other:

1) Are they dirty monopolistic bastards because they are throwing in MSN 
access software for free and therefore pushing all the other service 
providers into chapter 11?

or

2) Are they dirty money grubing bastards because they are going to try to 
milk an extra $50 out of us in order to use MSN?


>It's not a scam, but it's typical MS business....

Now I know that we all can take it as a matter of faith that everything 
that Microsoft does is evil, but could you back up this statement? Could 
you give me even one example where Msoft claimed to be selling (giving) 
something and then forced you to buy something else? Can you give a 
closely related example? Or a distantly related one? The closest one I 
can come up with is the Internet Asistent that they made a seperate 
product from Word, instead of including it together. Oh wait, they gave 
that away, didn't they? C'mon Peter, show me something to justify the 
comment "typical MS business". 

>And I do have a clue in this regard.

Sure, sure.

Michael




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