Re: DOJ wimped out

[rd@cottonwood.com (Rick Dahlgren)]

I started this conversation and it remains to be seen that anyone will
change anything, because to do so would increase costs, i.e. the cost of
removing features from Windows 95.  
In the current issue of "Red Herring", Michael Dell aptly states that
consumers really don't care much about any of this.....

So what was the real effect of what Joel Klein was boasting about with this
ruling?

>A few days ago, I asked what I thought was a fairly simple question,
>reproduced below. 
>
>Does no one, really, have an answer?
>
>Torsten Schmidt, University of New Hampshire
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>> From: Torsten Schmidt <torsten.schmidt@unh.edu>
>> To: Multiple recipients of list <antitrust@essential.org>
>> Subject: Re: DOJ wimped out
>> Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 5:53 PM
>> 
>> Robert Lande wrote:
>> 
>> > But now, if a manufacturer wishes, it can, for example, delete the IE
>> icon
>> > without Microsoft sending over goons to break their kneecaps.
>> 
>> Does anyone know which manufacturers will do so? Or what share of new PCs
>> will be affected?
>> 
>> Torsten Schmidt, University of New Hampshire