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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE in the Kernel
From:       "Jochen Puchalla, Uni" <puchalla () ph2 ! uni-koeln ! de>
Date:       2002-04-17 10:54:16
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Am Dienstag, 16. April 2002 21:02 schrieb Martijn Klingens:
> On Tuesday 16 April 2002 15:54, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:

> > It certainly isn't - after all, they're even selling a version of Windoze
> > XP without IE (known as Windoze XP Embedded).
> >
> > And if anyone else lies in court, he's fined...
>
> Hmm, "part of the system" in my dictionary != "hardwired into the kernel",
> though. The whole system indeed uses the HTML renderer heavily, like the
> fancy HTML side-widget in the explorer, the help system and other stuff.
> Thus, they had to ship the explorer component anyway. And they also had to
> ship the explorer as file manager.

> Sounds a bit unfair to state that they could apparently uncouple the
> browser from the system without also limiting the system's capabilities. No
> matter how much I dislike Microsoft for their monopoly and the abuse of it,
> you'd better bash them with decent arguments. And frankly, MS clearly got
> things straight after the Win95 debacle ("the internet will never be
> succesful") and also clearly envisioned that a browser would be an integral
> part of a user's desktop.

So they were accused of bundling windows with the IE and what did they do?
They were integrating IE deeper into the system to use this for their defense.
This is absurd.

The IE is just an example for MS' market power.
Real Networks is next and then someone else.
This is not healthy for an industry, having too little competition. 

But in the beginning of the trial I also thought: IE in windows? I don't care.

Jochen
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Jochen Puchalla	
II. Physikalisches Institut, Uni Koeln
470-3665 o. 470-6917

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