Re: keyboard/mouse programming

Rod Pemberton <do_not_have@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in part:
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.

Quite the contrary. Armentano is a declared antitrust
law abolishionist. He deplores any expansion which RRC
reepresents.

I'm far more cautious. RRC is extremely hard to prove.
But if you could and could show it had the effect of
lessening competition (likely easy), then I'd expect a US
court to convict. The Sherman and Clayton Acts are _scary_
pieces of law.

-- Robert



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