Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:37:18 -0700
From: "Ronald C. Dailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: software racism ?
AOL is proprietary and they have a right to restrict what software is
used to access their service. AOL is part of Time Warner and Netscape
also belongs to AOL. I understand that AOL has a special version of IE
that can be used with AOL in those cases where the AOL software doesn't
run properly. I've heard of a case where the AOL software wouldn't run
(or even load) under Windows 2000, for example. However, I don't think
we can expect to see AOL being forced to make their service available to
people using Opera or Lynx or Net-Tamer. If they do make it possible to
use other browsers to access AOL, it will be AOL's decision and made
only because of market pressure.
It's all well and good to claim that there's a violation of the Sherman
Anti-Trust Act, but someone has to bring charges against MS and AOL/Time
Warner and that someone is the U.S. Justice Department. I haven't heard
that they are taking any new interest in this.
Ronald Dailey
On 2002-01-09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 13:26:05 -0500
>On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:47:53 +60 Gontran Eiffel
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> M$ includes some features in windows for exemple
>> which made competing software appear buggy. M$ "has been signing
>>exclusive deals with for exemple Time Warner (=Universal) where
>>IE will be required for access to parts of there sites.
>> etc...
>> Gontran
>If they have actually gotten caught at signing deals like that then
>they should all go to jail. These kinds of unethical business
>practices are expressly prohibited by the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, a
>federal law which outlaws the practice of business enterprises
>colluding with one another for the purpose of establishing monopoly
>powers and fixing prices, etc.
>Sam Heywood
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RCD
Net-Tamer V 1.13 Beta - Registered
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