DOJ wimped out

[rd@cottonwood.com (Rick Dahlgren)]

If a manufacturer is compelled to commit resources, including time to
de-install, by the government, the cost associated with the time to
de-install is in fact money that comes from total revenues and subsequently
profits.  

>> 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?
>

Comment from rlande@UBmail.ubal
>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.