innovation has nothing to do with marketing

["Lewis A. Mettler" <lmettler@lamlaw.com>]

Microsoft is still intend upon forcing all consumers to buy Microsoft
products.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/991208-000017.html

Innovation has nothing to do with marketing except that illegal
marketing can certainly suppress it from independent developers world
wide.  That has been clearly illustrated by the current case and in fact
found to be true in the current case.

The DOJ was absolutely correct in the proposed conclusions of law by
suggesting that the computer software market is the least appropriate
market where bundling and forced sales should be permitted under the
guise of innovation and product design.

In computer software it is completely unnecessary to bundle any product
in order to deliver the benefits of multiple products.

If you do not think so, you forgot that software can be installed at any
time by anybody including the customer.

Thus, there is absolutely no reason not to unbundled all software and
allow consumers to decide which products they need, want and are willing
to pay for.

Bill Gates does not even vote on that issue. He is a seller.  Sellers do
not vote on buying.

-- 
Lewis A. Mettler, Esq.(Attorney and Software Developer)
lmettler@LAMLaw.com
http://www.lamlaw.com/ (detailed review of the Microsoft antitrust
trial)