I don't remember, but wasn't IBM once (i.e., back in the 1960s) accused of illegal tie-ins that restrained trade? (so the key word is tie-in?)
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Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Lear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 12:15 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PEN-L:33943] Re: Re: Artificial economic inefficiency
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>
> On Friday, January 17, 2003 at 09:55:04 (-0800) Michael
> Perelman writes:
> >I thought Bill Lear's question yesterday was very
> interesting. Given his
> >background, I'm surprised he did not relate his question to
> software. For
> >example, Microsoft makes it difficult to run its programs on Linux.
>
> With software, you can introduce all sorts of fun little "features"
> which makes it difficult to use, but makes it more profitable.
>
> I was hoping you econ folks would have named this nasty practice by
> now.
>
>
> Bill
>
