From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 22 19: 2:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3389E110B4 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:02:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA11181; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:02:15 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd011000; Mon Feb 22 20:02:00 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA14813; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:01:54 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902230301.UAA14813@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Compaq and the Robinson-Patman Act To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 03:01:53 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990222155920.0404e9d0@mail.lariat.org> from "Brett Glass" at Feb 22, 99 04:04:53 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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