new formats for video tapes that are all being used at once. VHS-C, S-VHSand 8mm formats all are coexisting together in the camcorder market, showingthat maybe in our society today, we are not in need of one standard. Maybe wecan get along just as well with more than one standard. Along the same lines,there are quite a few other industries that can get along without one standard.Take for instance the automobile industry. If you accepted the idea that onestandard was best for everyone involved, then you would never be tempted topurchase a BMW, Lexus, Infiniti, Saab or Porsche automobile, due to the factthat these cars all have less than one percent market share in the automobileindustry and therefore will never be standards.Probably the biggest proponent of government intervention into the Microsoftissue is Netscape Communications, based out of Mountain View, California.Netscape has filed law suits accusing Microsoft of tying again.("NetscapesComplaint against MicroSoft." 2) This time, Microsoft is bundling their worldwide web browser, Internet Explorer 3.0 into their operating system, Windows95. Netscape is the maker of Netscape Navigator, currently the most widely usedinternet browser on the market, and now, facing some fierce competition fromMicrosofts Internet Explorer. Netscape says that in addition to bundling thebrowser, Microsoft was offering Windows at a discount to original equipmentmanufacturers (OEMs),("Netscapes Complaint against MicroSoft." 2) to featureInternet Explorer on the desktop of the computers that they shipped, thuseliminating any competition for space on the desktop by rival companies such asNetscape.If the OEM wants to give the consumer a fair and even choice of browsers byplacing competitors browser icons in a comparable place on the desktop,Netscape has been informed that the OEM must pay $3 more for Windows 95 than anOEM that takes the Windows bundle as is and agrees to make the competitorsbrowsers far less ...
