Author: Amir Ban
Date: 04:17:00 12/21/97
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On December 20, 1997 at 17:51:40, Rajen Gupta wrote: >Now that the DOJ has made it illegal to include mare than one feature in >a software product(RE: windows 95 & IE3/4)unless you charge double or >triple the price, would chess programmers be the next targets of the >DOJ? Can Shredder be sold with end-game database? Is it fair for Fritz >to include a chess tree, a fairly substantial database and 3 very strong >chess engines and so many other features that are missing in other chess >programmes? Can Chessmaster 5500 be sold for 1/2 the price of other >programmes? Is Rebel 9 which includes the fantastic bonus CD Rom in its >purchase being fairly sold? and most important what about all the free >ware programmes,some which like crafty which are as strong as the >strongest? > >I wonder if I can complain to the DOJ about the above (I guess I can't >because I am not a multibillionaire) > >Rajen Gupta First, this would be anti-trust action and there should be a monopoly (trust) issue in the first place for the DOJ to take any notice. Second, I think that according to the DOJ criteria even owning 99% of the chess software market does not count as a monopoly that needs their attention. Amir
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