According to the antitrusters, Microsoft should not set the conditions of sale for its own product. It has earned that advantage, because it, and no one else, developed Windows into a leading product. If its competitors want the same benefit, let them make a product equal to Windows. If buyers do not like the terms Microsoft is asking, they are completely free to patronize Microsoft's competitors. What they should not be free to do is to have Microsoft while eating it too.
Antitrust law is a tool to enforce the claims of any second-rater against any innovator.
Microsoft is only the latest in a long line of victims of the unjust antitrust laws. Microsoft should be cheered for taking an unusually firm stand against the Justice Department. But company officials are focusing on the wrong issue. Their basic argument should not be that the public benefits from the unfettered freedom of the best producers. Microsoft needs to make the moral case for economic freedom.