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I don't get it are operating systems and computers supposed to ship without web browsers? You could argue literally any feature is put into a product to 'bundle
by s_m_t 2y ago
I don't get it are operating systems and computers supposed to ship without web browsers? You could argue literally any feature is put into a product to 'bundle and dump' to kill competitors. Why is a web browser something that should be a paid product with a so called competitive market to begin with?
Windows also comes with USB drivers but hypothetically I could drive down to Best Buy and choose from a number of different USB drivers I would have to pay for separately (I guess I should pick up a web browser too apparently). This would be preferable why?
- WalterBright 2y agoExactly. The whole case was simply an attack on Microsoft because Microsoft was a big target that (stupidly) dissed the DoJ.
- blackeyeblitzar 2y ago> I don't get it are operating systems and computers supposed to ship without web browsers? You could argue literally any feature is put into a product to 'bundle and dump' to kill competitors. A browser was a separate product at the time, not a feature. Microsoft bundled, as they have done many other times, for anticompetitive reasons.
- WalterBright 2y agoCars today come bundled with stereos and navigators. Should they be charged?
- chii 2y agoonly if the big car manufacturer made their own stereos/nagivators, and refused to do business with other vendors of such components in order to lock them out of the market.
- WalterBright 2y agoSounds like you think they should be charged.