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
Title: RE: [PEN-L:33948] Re: RE: Re: Re: Artificial economic inefficiency
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
