Re: Old wine in new bottles

["P.A. Petricone" <petrico@ixc.net>]

I have not read the exactness of the settlement,  just what the press
has reported so I am unsure what the details really are.

If what I read and hear is close, one option is to de-install ie3 with
control panel, the other is to make the ie executable (? version) hidden
and remove the icon from the desktop. If ie3 was fully installed, all
it's files and registry/associations have been set up. In the first
case, one assumes that another browser is to be installed, In the
latter, who knows?

I would have to set up a test system with the exact procedures to see
what they look like.

One comment from the press conference tipped the hand - a reference to
the bundled ISP startup files that will default to ie in order to work.

What do you think that means?

Best Regards,

-pap

-----Original Message-----
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com>
To: P.A. Petricone <petrico@ixc.net>
Cc: Multiple recipients of list <am-info@essential.org>
Date: Thursday, January 22, 1998 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: Old wine in new bottles


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|On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, P.A. Petricone wrote:
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|> 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.
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|This is an interesting point. But is it true?
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|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.
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|-Declan
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