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While I quite agree that Microsoft has the right to institute any rules regarding their products that are legal, no matter how unreasonable or silly they might be--I am afraid I completely miss the logic behind your statement that "Microsoft (among others) constitutes a majority where it concerns their products..."
Actually, it isn't subject to a vote. Microsoft, as the owner of their product, makes the rules within the operation of the law. Majority rule is simply not applicable...or have I missed something somewhere?
I believe that our law does impose various restraints upon any business who has a near monopoly in the market, by the way, whether the government chooses to enforce those rules or not. That, however, is a topic for another day.
David
-----Original Message from jenny_berger -at- fairfieldresidential -dot- com-----
Actually it's quite American -- by all accounts, the US operates as a
democracy (roughly), which means the majority rules. Microsoft (among
others) constitutes a majority where it concerns their products;
therefore, they make the rules of their game...
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