From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-15 19:27:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: aek@vib.usr.pu.ru (Alexander Kopilovitch) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. Date: 15 Aug 2003 19:27:28 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <3F367B39.8060108@noplace.com> <1060611604.45048@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F38DEBC.8040208@noplace.com> <3F3A33EE.90900@noplace.com> <3F3B89BE.1090207@noplace.com> <3F3D06B6.9030206@attbi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.242.16.149 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1061000849 8683 127.0.0.1 (16 Aug 2003 02:27:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Aug 2003 02:27:29 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41548 Date: 2003-08-16T02:27:29+00:00 List-Id: Robert I. Eachus wrote: > That more than any other issue is why Microsoft has a monopoly. They > offer the system builders a deal, either $X per system if you sell boxes > without a Microsoft OS, or $Y per system if you sell every "desktop" or > laptop computer with Windows. And X >> Y, so that to be competitive, > they have to sell you a Microsoft OS whether you want it or not. This is generally well-known story, but what I can't get is why such a deal was not immediately prosecuted by anti-trust law. Well, I don't know the code of American law, but my understanding of the general spirit of anti-trust law is that a company may not interfere (by any agreement) with the prices for goods, which this company does not supply (at least parts or precursors of those goods or services for them). And if it tries to do that then it must be prosecuted by some chapter of anti-trust law. Can you explain this issue? (I certainly ask here for general, conceptual explanation, not for detailed legal analysis.) Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia