Joe Geiser <[log in to unmask]>

>>I really wonder if anyone at DOJ has a clue as
to what IE4 is, what it has under the hood, and how << integrated >>
it it
to Win95 and upcoming releases... (I'm not under NDA for this release
and
can say that it is TRULY INTEGRATED).  Install it and suddenly find
that
every Explorer Window is "Internet Explorer"... that sounds like
integration
to me.  The DOJ complaint is so full of holes, they don't have a
prayer -
and I wish they would stop spending our tax dollars persuing it.<<

You've hit a hot button issue with me :)

It all depends on who you believe, what you think of Microsoft's
products (and all the technologies they've either killed or
marginalized),  and whether you allow the surface issue of browser
integration to distract from the real issue of whether a very small
number of unelected individuals operating in what fundamentally is a
feudal organizational structure shall be allowed to dictate the terms
of mankind's future in cyberspace.

There are a lot of good reasons to resent or dislike the intrusion of
federal power, but you must remember that unlike many corpororations,
where trust and loyalty  are simply bought or sold like a market
commodity, there are people in the government (some of whom I work
with) who have sworn a oath, not to a king or a dynasty or even
capitalism itself, but to a constitution and it's underlying ideals
and are willing to die as a result of that commitment.   I have yet
to hear the corporate world commit to anything but their own egos and
pocketbooks though I'm very optimistic that that will change.

Actually I'm kind of enjoying listening to the FUD and lies coming
out Microsoft these days.  Very educational :)


As the saying goes.  "You cannot make the weak strong by making the
strong weak".  Unless they have deceived themselves into believing
that they are strong only when they are taking from others.