On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:35:32 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I wanted the Sun JVM.  That's it.  If I wanted the stupid MSN Toolbar,
>> I'd download that and install it separately.  I really wish companies
>> would stop bundling crapware with their products.
> 
> The problem is that MSN (and Google and Yahoo and ...) pay about $5 to
> Sun if you install the toolbar. That's a powerful incentive. Primarily
> caused by people so oblivious to what's getting installed that they just
> click OK. :-)
> 
> Same reason Google is fighting Microsoft over default browsers.

Well yes, that is the problem - greed often is the problem. :-)

And yeah, it's not just MSN that's the problem.

Jim

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