Re: bundling (again)

[Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>]

--- From a message sent by Joe Moore on 12/3/99 1:54 PM ---

>Is that all consumers?  If so, then a contradiction can be shown by
>finding a  consumer to whom bundling is fair.  Bundling applications
>with an operating system is fair to those consumers who want the
>functionality of all elements of the bundle.  Therefore, bundling is not
>inherently unfair to all consumers.
>
>Are there consumers for which bundling is unfair?  Yes.  But your
>generalization is not justified.
>
>If you mean that "bundling is inherently unfair for some consumers", I
>would say that the fairness is not inherent to the bundling, since it is
>not universal.  So your generalization is not justified.

Mr. Mettler is not required to justify anything he says, at least in his 
own mind. His acts of pure faith and guesswork are more valid then 
everyone else's facts, reasoning and experience put together. We should 
know that by now.

Mitch Stone
mstone@vc.net