<quote who="Gunlaug Sørtun"> > John Faulds wrote: >> "First, it requests the Commission to obligate Microsoft to unbundle >> Internet Explorer from Windows and/or carry alternative browsers >> pre-installed on the desktop." >> >> I can't see that flying. Is anyone going to ask Apple to stop >> shipping their OS with Safari? > > No, but Apple is hardly in a dominant position, and carrying > pre-installed alternatives to Safari can't be much of a problem. > > Microsoft is in a "slightly" more dominant position, so a better control > of its practices sure wouldn't hurt. Delivering their OSes with half a > dozen pre-installed standard-compliant alternatives to IE/win isn't a > technical problem, so why not?
Where would that end - Should they pre-install alternative mail clients, firewalls, anti-virus programs, web servers too? No, OS suppliers should have the option of providing whatever default packages they want, and leave the options open for users to install their own alternatives. Those that need a better, standards compliant web browser will know they can get one. Just my 0.02 Gav... > > regards > Georg > -- > http://www.gunlaug.no > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > -- Gav... ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
