This setback for Microsoft is not in itself very damaging-most manufacturers are happy to distribute Explorer for free. But the Softies have to be concerned when Judge Jackson scoffs at the idea of Microsoft’s self-proclaimed “unfettered liberty” to include whatever it wants in its operating system, no matter what carnage this does to the bottom line of its competitors. He might be thinking of Windows 98, which, to the detriment of Microsoft foes like Netscape, has browsing built in-thus tilting the playing field in Gates’s favor. Illegally so? That’s still the question.