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From: Robert Heiling <>
Subject: Re: Fast DOS Web Browsers
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 17:42:13 -0700


Dave Hinz wrote:

> Henry F. Brownlee () wrote:
>
> : Not at all. It is more like having to take a cigar lighter or radio with the
> : car. You are under no obligation to use either one. You can choose what ever
> : "gas station" you wish, such as Netscape. Or if you do use the radio, you
> : are not obliged to listen to any particular station. You can just browse
> : around until you find one you like.
>
> Close, but it's more like "You get a free radio with the car. You can
> chose another radio,

That's very true. I use Netscape even though I have Win98 and have used other
browsers in the past.

> but of course we've unfairly exploited our
> position as a monopoly and harmed the consumer by forcing our competition
> away from the marketplace, by our illegal market practices".

How so? Netscape is alive & well! There is even a Linux version. No such MS
Explorer under Linux<g>.

> At least, if
> you believe the Justice Department. In this instance I happen to agree
> with them.

Not I.

> Ah, but this is getting kinda off-topic.

Off-topiv for which group that it is cross-posted to? alt.genealogy or soc.
genealogy.computing? Car radios have primitive computers, cigarette lighters can
be used to power laptops running genealogy, and you can listen to genealogy
programs over the radio<vbg?.

> Dave Hinz

Bob :-)

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