On Mon, 18 May 1998, Barnet Wagman wrote:
> Actually, bundled office automation software (MS Office) may not be in
> your interest, not that you have a choice any more.
>
> For example, back before Microsoft took over the office automation biz,
> there were many word processing packages, some far better than
> Microsoft's offering at the time. Bundling has nothing to do with software
> per se - it is simply a marketing gimmick. Microsoft could easily sell the
> components of MS Office separately, at the same total price, without
> effecting it's much vaunted (but really rather trivial and ad hoc) integration.
>
> Anti-trust action against MS is long overdue. I suspect it would
> have happened back in the 80s if the Democrats had been in office.
> (As I understand it, the Reagan adminstration virtually shut down
> anti-trust activity at the Justice department.)
>
> ______________________________
>
You're right. The major antitrust victory of the Reagan administration
was to prevent self-limitation of the number of commercial minutes
broadcasters could show in an hour.