[Info-vax] Latest TCPIP Services seem irreparably horked...

[Paul Sture]

On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 06:21:38 +0000, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply
wrote:

> This is an argument which I've never understood.  Usually, it is applied
> to Microsoft's "unfair" practice of bundling IE with the OS and making
> it difficult to use another browser instead.  It seems to me that IF YOU
> DON'T LIKE IT, DON'T BUY IT.  We don't require car manufacturers to
> design their cars so that one can easily swap the factory-supplied
> engine, or air-conditioning system, or brakes or whatever with
> third-party products.

The car analogy doesn't really hold, as a monopoly manufacturer isn't 
giving away free components for cars.  IIRC when MSIE came along, 
Netscape was still charging corporate customers for their browser.



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Paul Sture