[TriLUG] A little off topic

Bill Vinson billvinson at nc.rr.com
Fri Sep 7 11:55:46 EDT 2001


I agree and I made the point that bundling is not wrong.  Bundling in
such a way as that it cannot be undone OR use a competing product in
it's place is wrong.

I do agree with you :)

Bill

On Fri, 07 Sep 2001, Matt Jezorek wrote:

> 
> > M$ is definitely predatory, but the bundling of IE in itself was not
> > wrong.
> 
> But is it not wrong to build IE into the core of the OS to where if you have
> windows installed you HAVE to have IE installed there is no way to uninstall
> it. This is unfair to competition. If they bundled it like the Bundle AOL
> and stuff that is one story because that can be uninstalled. However if you
> tell the windows installer not to install the "Online Services" it still
> will =)
> 
> just my 2c
> 
> -Matt
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