Re: bundling is inherently unfair to consumers

[Paul Rickard <mail@msbc.simplenet.com>]

esoteric@denali.atlnet.com

>>      AH..HA!!!  So now you're *FINALLY* getting it (albeit probably
>> without realizing it yourself).  You've been arguing about how *ALL* or
>> *ANY* bundling is harmful to consumers (and have even gone as far as to
>> claim it's against some unwritten 'consumer right'), but now you've
>> qualified it by stating that it's different when done by a
>> monopolist...with *THIS* I can agree.  This distinction (a monopolist)
>> is the defining issue, but to use it as an example for non-monopolistic
>> products is to engage in what we use to call 'pseudo-deductive
>> reasoning'.
>
>Why did it take this long to get this out of him?

   I suspect it just took a while for Lewis to get confused about his own 
arguments. Something like a cartoon where the characters are having a 
yes, no, yes, no, yes, no debate, and then one says yes instead of no and 
it throws the other one off.


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