Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:04:38 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq and the Robinson-Patman Act Message-ID: <4.1.19990222200400.03fc1ce0@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <199902230301.UAA14813@usr08.primenet.com> References: <4.1.19990222155920.0404e9d0@mail.lariat.org>
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At 03:01 AM 2/23/99 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >> 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... I don't know about that, but it would *certainly* apply to Gateway not getting as good a price as Compaq for Windows. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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