Re: Bundling and operating systems

["Lewis A. Mettler" <lmettler@lamlaw.com>]

T,

Ethical at One of One dot Net wrote:
> 
> In <99121900073108.03244@ehome.inhouse>, on 12/19/99 at 03:10 AM,
>    Eric Lee Green <elgreen@iname.com> said:
> 
> |What I see you saying, Lewis, is that  if there are 9,999,999,999
> |people who benefit from bundling, and 1 person who is harmed by
> |bundling, this is an actionable item even if the "harm" is just $10.

IE bundling caused enormous harm to Boeing.  Do they count?  Are they
the only one?

Network bundling caused harm to Microsoft when they found their own
networking technology was not available on Unix when they bought
HotMail.  Are they the only one?  Do they count?

You also are confused about the difference between "fairness", "consumer
harm" and illegality.

How deceitfully you try to fool consumers.

Under antitrust laws "actionable harm" is limited primarily to
competitors not consumers at all.

Are you so slow to think that precluding Netscape from the browser
market is not actionable?

-- 
Lewis A. Mettler, Esq.(Attorney and Software Developer)
lmettler@LAMLaw.com
http://www.lamlaw.com/ (detailed review of the Microsoft antitrust
trial)