Re: keyboard/mouse programming


"Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Robert Redelmeier" <redelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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So? Raising your competitors cost of doing business is a
standard American corporation practice.

Rather cynical: RRC (Raising Rivals Costs) is an illegal
anticompetitive business practice (even if hard to prove):
http://ftc.gov/be/RRCGMU.pdf


30 pages... Does it specifically say that's illegal somewhere or just that
they have conducted research into the practice from an anticompetitive
perspective such as by a firm believed to be monopolistic?

The few sections I skimmed seem to indicate that this research is highly
theoretical in nature and different from predatory pricing, monopolistic
practices, and even anticompetitive practices. I.e.,:

"It probably cannot be stressed enough that raising rivals' costs or
exclusion is not necessarily anticompetitive."

Which the authors repeat again:

"That is, that a dominant firm engages in cost-raising strategies, does
not, itself prove, as a matter of economic theory, that such strategies
are
anticompetitive."

From what I've skimmed, it seems to me they just researched the idea that
RRC can support an argument for either anticompetitive or monopolistic
practices by a dominant market player, but is not specifically illegal.

Skimming... it seems the cases mentioned that actually introduced RRC into
a
court of law, weren't decided on RRC theory, but on violations of existing
law and didn't set any precedent in regards to RRC.

Okay, read or skim the rest... maybe... later. Perhaps, when or if I read
it, it'll mention somewhere that it's illegal or set precedent.
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Looking at "Myths of Antitrust Progress" by Prof. Dominick T. Armentano
http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/reg20n2a.html

"Horizontal price agreements and resale price maintenance are still
illegal..."

And further down:

"And alleged 'barriers to entry' and 'raising rivals cost' confuses genuine
legal barriers, ..."

I take those to mean that RRC isn't illegal.


Rod Pemberton

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