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align="CENTER" valign="TOP"> <tr> <td align="center"> </td> <td> <font face="helvetica, verdana, arial" size="+2"><b>The Antitrust Vacuum</b></font><br><font face="helvetica, verdana, arial" size="+1">or: Sucking up to Microsoft</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#99CC33" colspan="2" valign="TOP"> </td> </tr> <tr valign="TOP"> <td bgcolor="#99CC33"> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1"> <tr> <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#CCFF66"> <font face="helvetica, verdana, arial" size="-2"> <b>by <a href="mailto:issues@tripod.com">DANIEL WEINSHENKER</b></a> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#CCFF66"> <font face="helvetica, verdana, arial" size="-2"><b>OTHER WEB FILTERS BY DAN WEINSHENKER</b> </font> <br><font face="helvetica, verdana, arial" size="-2"> <b>Heretics  '90s-Style</b> </font> <br> <font face="helvetica, verdana, arial" size="-2"> <a href="/"><b>Everybody Loves Roadkill</b></a> </font> </td> </tr>   </table> </td> <td bgcolor="#99CC33" colspan="2"> <font size="-1" face="helvetica, verdana, arial"> <b>In case you haven't heard, the United States Justice Department</b> (at the urging of those law-loving folks at Netscape) has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. The move succeeded (at least so far), but it leaves many of us asking why. I mean, Microsoft is a good thing, isn't it? It provides unlimited beverages for its employees, uses the Rolling Stones for its theme music, and Bill Gates is so pathetic-looking that he makes all us regular-looking guys feel like models (poor models, but models nonetheless). <p> Well, the answer is as follows: <p> Microsoft's industry and world-leading operating software, Windows, now comes with little goodies. Among those little goodies is Internet Explorer, a Web browser that, coincidentally, is made by Microsoft. To which we say: Thank you, Microsoft, for giving us value-added bonuses and extras, much the same way that we thanked Ginsu for throwing in that free paring knife and the ever-popular radish peeler. <p> Let's take a look at Netscape's (er... the Justice Department's) gripes. They claim that Microsoft is using their Windows monopoly to unfairly and exclusively promote their browser. <p> Now let's take another look, say, in the form of an analogy. Hoover makes vacuums, and damn good vacuums at that. And with their vacuums come myriad attachments: an upholstery cleaner, maybe a sucking wand for tight spaces. Whatever. And these attachments come free. If there's a company out there, and I'm sure there is, that makes only attachments, a complete factory just for those sucking wands, would you say that the situation is unjust, that they don't have a chance against a company like Hoover, or would you say that this sucking wand company, in fact, sucks wands (in other words, is ignorant and or/pathetic in its business approach)? <p> Just wondering. <p> No matter which side you take, please keep this in mind: <p> That 80 percent of you reading this at this very moment are being duped into looking through a series of pseudo horizon-broadening Windows, made by Gates. Ironic? I don't think so. <p> Word out! <p><hr><p> <b>Daniel Weinshenker</b> is an aspiring male model. 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