Aircraft engines -- the big jet engines -- are frequently sold with a tie to a maintenance contract, and also leased by the operating hour, rather than sold. Lots of aircraft sales (and other big ticket items) are sold and financed by the same entity.
Gene Coyle
Michael Perelman wrote:
IBM was accused of requiring its customers of buying its punch cards -- which were the way of entering data into a computer a generation ago. Monsanto requires people who purchase its seeds to use its herbicide, Roundup, which we discussed last week. Why is that not a tie-in? Maybe because the company claims to "rent" its seeds."Devine, James" wrote:all I know is that back in the early 1970s, I was talking to the information technology folks at work (at the Chicago Fed) and they told me that IBM had been accused of anti-trust violation because they'd set up one of their peripheral machines so that it would only work with IBM mainframes. I do not know anything more than that.-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
