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Come on... You might want to learn how to do a decent Blockquote first... | 354 comments | Create New Account
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Come on... You might want to learn how to do a decent Blockquote first...
Authored by: Wol on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 03:56 PM EDT
You forgot - until recently, if you had Windows, there was no way to avoid IE.
Windows 98 gave you IE even if you asked for Netscape (hence the anti-trust
trial), and things haven't improved much over the years.

I *still* don't think that has satisfactorily been fixed, even with Windows 7!

Cheers,
Wol

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Come on... You might want to learn how to do a decent Blockquote first...
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 06:03 PM EDT
While I mostly agree with you, IE itself these days is in fact "free"
(as in beer) and I sometimes use it (running on linux under WINE) to test
websites.

I don't think it was freely available at the time of the bundling debacle, but
even if it had been, the manipulation of suppliers in regards to bundling was
where the anti-competitive behavior mostly was.

In the case of Google, there are no suppliers being manipulated, google provides
their results to me directly, and they don't in any way try to manipulate other
parties in the chain that reaches me. So if they help their other services or
not, they don't seem to be actively interfering with anybody else.

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