Re: Old wine in new bottles

[Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>]

On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, P.A. Petricone wrote:

> The more I learn about this settlement, the more it looks like ms
> technically snookered DOJ into letting them leave the ie code on the
> OSR2 system with it's buttons hidden, at least for the option that most
> OEMs will elect to use. If the default file associations stay in place,
> the first click on a html, gif, or jpj file that may have come with the
> machine or 3rd party app - off she goes! There are some 200+ ie specific
> files sitting there waiting for an opportunity to break something.

This is an interesting point. But is it true?

That is, have you verified this by running A/R and also by killing the
icon?  As a Unix-type myself, I'm not familiar enough with Windows to
guess at the behavior without trying it. 

-Declan
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