Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 03:01:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Compaq and the Robinson-Patman Act Message-ID: <199902230301.UAA14813@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990222155920.0404e9d0@mail.lariat.org> from "Brett Glass" at Feb 22, 99 04:04:53 pm
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> The Robinson-Patman Act, 15 U.S.C.A. Section 13 > > Section 13. Discrimination in price, services, or facilities > > (a) Price; selection of customers. It shall be unlawful for any person > engaged in commerce, in the course of such commerce, either directly or > indirectly, to discriminate in price between > different purchasers of commodities of like grade and quality, where either > or any of the purchases involved in such discrimination are in commerce, > where such commodities are sold for > use, consumption, or resale within the United States or any Territory > thereof or the District of Columbia or any insular possession or other > place under the jurisdiction of the United > States, and where the effect of such discrimination may be substantially to > lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in any line of commerce, or > to injure, destroy, or prevent > competition with any person who either grants or knowingly receives the > benefit of such discrimination, or with customers of either of them.... Actually, this sounds like it would apply to Compaq not selling you a laptop without you having to buy Windows... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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