In a message dated 12-27-97, David Hartung said to Justin Baustert:
DH> Sure they do, if the consumer doesn't like Win95, there is OS2 or
DH> Macintosh. By definition, these folks are competitors of Microsoft.
Correct to a degree.  Where the problem comes in is the restraint of trade
practiced by Microsoft in their requirements for developers to receive
information necessary to write to their environment.  They require the
developer to agree not to release the same or equivalent package under other
environments(OS/2, Macintosh, Unix) for a period of years after the release
of the windows version.  As consumers tend to buy applications as opposed to
operating systems they are stuck.
Dave
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 þ MR/2 2.26 NR þ More government is not the solution, it's the problem.
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