Re: Microsoft: OEM choice would be a "disaster"

[MarkCooper@aol.com]

This line of discussion raises three things I have been banging away at
whenever I get a chance.  

1)  The case is not about technology, it is about business.  Every time the
courts wander into technology questions they lose sight of the simple fact
that the issue is business practices.  If the business anticompetitive
business practices are driven out of the industry, the technology will
flourish.

2)  Although the long history of anticompetitive practices stretches back more
than a decade, the case does have to go to trial over specific vilations of
law.  

3)  It is super interesting to note that the Kempin pricing memo readily
recognizes that the OS can be broken into pieces.  Microsoft only considers
this acceptable when it controls the deintegration of functionalities for the
purposes of preserving its abusive pricing.