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Bundling Badness
What is so wrong with bundling. Microsoft could be handing out free toasters, and people would still complain. Because they just don't like MS.
Bundling doesn't limit choice, it just lets them see down one of many paths, it's still their choice to follow. If they're not 'educated' enough about a competitor's product to go get it. Then who's fault is that? And if they're not 'educated' enough to go get it, should a company have to supply every competing product, along with their own?
Now if the very nature of bundling is bad, then I want to see every product that has in-house made components banned, or remade completely from 3rd party components.
I've yet to hear anyone complain about Microsoft's bundling of Paint, perhaps it's because Paint is far from equal with other paint programs. So maybe it's not bundling that competitors don't like, but competition.
Let me finish by saying I like and use Linux, and am not a Microsoft advocate. Perhaps a devil's advocate, but not a Microsoft one.
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