On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 06:16:06PM +0800, Manny wrote: > On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Michael Chaney wrote: > > > and made some programming effort to make it so. When Windows 95 first > > came out, IE was an addon that came with the Plus Pack, so obviously it > > wasn't really an integral part. And it was shown at the big anti-trust > > trial that it wasn't, in fact, an integral part. > > Win95?!! In case you haven't noticed, M$ has released Win 98/2000/ME/XP, > and IE is an integral aprt of all of those releases. In XP service pack 1 > they may have added a way to "remove" it, but that was also a punitive > result of their monopolistic activity.
Right, buddy, but the reason that they made it an integral part (which, again, it was shown that IE really never was an integral part) is because they were legally prohibited from adding anything to their OS, so they had to act like it was an integral part. This was due to a consent decree in 1994. http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?971020.eantitrust.htm By the time the courts got around to forcing them to "unbundle" it, Netscape was already dead. If IE was an integral part of Win32, then Windows 95 would have had it as a built-in originally. They added it later to Windows 95 and claimed it was an integral part; doesn't make sense given that Windows 95 originally shipped without it and worked just fine. Brush up on your history and get back with us. I still have something around here to take care of that hook, but it sounds like it may well be a treble hook.... http://www.snlcorp.com/treblehooks.htm Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
