Re: From dominating the desktop to owning the web

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

Gene,

Gene Gaines wrote:
> 
> Hey, how about an important subject.
> 
> Here are a few CNET documents worth reading.  Start at:
>    http://home.cnet.com/specialreports/0-6014-7-1474065.html
> 
> Microsoft's about-face
> >>From dominating the desktop to owning the web
> 
> A CNET Special Report
> By Valerie Potter
> (12/8/99)
> 
>    Microsoft has a monopoly on the computer operating system. So said
>    District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson last month in the 207-page
>    findings of fact, which marked the latest development in the ongoing
>    antitrust trial against the software maker. But what does that
>    actually mean for Microsoft?
>    ...
>    ... the software giant has already embarked on a contingency plan:
>    move to the Net. Over the past several months, the company has
>    outlined a number of new Internet strategies:
>    ...

Front, foremost and determinative is forcing all consumers to buy IE via
bundling.  In antitrust terms that is using your monopoly power to force
and establish a second monopoly market.

Do any developers on this list want to pursue the browser market?  We
are talking about a multibillion dollar market now.  In the near future
that market is at least an order of magnitude greater.

Yet some still insist upon screwing consumers by forcing the sale of
products via bundling.

The only people I know who would want to do that are salesman.

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