Re: CFA: Microsoft overcharges consumers $10 billion in 3 years

["Eric M. Bennett" <ericb@pobox.com>]

Mitch Stone wrote:

>Exactly. Gates offered this bit of hyperbole before the Senate Committee
>last year. I was very disappointed that nobody saw fit to call him on it.

Who had the data to contradict him at that time?  Probably the only person
on the panel in March who had that data on "OEM" pricing would have been
Michael Dell, and he *still* isn't talking.



--
Eric Bennett ( http://www.pobox.com/~ericb/ )
Cornell University, Field of Biochemistry, 377 Olin Chemistry Lab

We have increased our prices over the last 10 years [while]
other component prices have come down and continue to come down.
-Joachim Kempin, Senior Vice President, Microsoft Corp.