I must apologize... 10098

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nice slide, the insinuation that Be couldn't possibly be harmed by MS actions, since Be wasn't directly earning money from OEM sales.

So does that mean that you believe that MS can't be harmed by OEMs putting Firefox on their OEM installs of MS-Windows, since MS makes no money directly from the sale of IE?

Bullpoo.

You get more and more far out each and every day. I guess we'll add this to the list of stupid poo you've said in your sad attempt to justify anything and everything that MS does.

You don't know what Hitachi wanted, only what MS tried to prevent them doing, and got caught at.

MS can do no wrong, we've heard that mantra from you before Erik, it's comforting, in a way, to see that you are still as big an apologist for MS as ever.

"ALlow"? it isn't Microsoft's call what OEMs can sell, unless you'd care to claim that Intel should be "allowed" to refuse to "allow" OEMs to sell MS installs, after all, MS is just "riding on the coattails" of Intel's advertising campaign.

Those parasitic Redmondites! the nerve!

upset? sure, like a sugar dealer might be upset that a lower level dealer was getting their stuff from someone else.

Upset doesn't mean that you have any right to do anything about it. If the OEM wants to sell other stuff, deal with it. Suck it up and well, you know, compete, on the merits of the products...

Unless you would like to claim that merely being "upset" gives you the right to punch someone in the nose? An action, is legal, or not, irrespective of you being "upset"

MS pulled a shady stunt, (well, more than one, but this specific one) and now, you defend them because they were "upset"? Do you defend a wife beater, excusing him because he's "upset"?

so MS will "let anyone" do what MS tells them, freely, of their own free will, as long as they chose the MS option..?

yeah, MS interfering with the OEMs.

just like MS decided to bundle a "competing product" to Netscape, are you now going to say that was bad? wrong? upsetting?

I've been throwing up reading your justfication of MS strongarm tactics, does that count?

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