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Re: DOJ wimped out

To: Rick Dahlgren <rd@cottonwood.com>
Subject: Re: DOJ wimped out
From: rlande@UBmail.ubalt.edu
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 10:44:21 -0500 (EST)
Cc: Multiple recipients of list <antitrust@essential.org>
In-reply-to: <199801231419.IAA21109@oasis.novia.net>

> manufacturers the right to remove IE(certainly at some cost) after the OS
> install.  Is that cost passed on to consumers....or Netscape....and would
> any government action to compel "no cost to the consumer" removal
> constitute an illegal taking of manufacturers' property?

How can giving manufactures an option possibly be a taking of their
property?  They can continue toleave it on, but now they can remove  it -
manufacturers rights have increased, not decreased.

References:
- DOJ wimped out
  - From: rd@cottonwood.com (Rick Dahlgren)

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