Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:18:49 12/21/97
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On December 21, 1997 at 07:17:00, Amir Ban wrote: >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 I think the DOJ simply went overboard, because there is *no* monopoly anyway. There is OS/2, Linux and Windows in the OS/market. And there is IE, Netscape and others in the browser market. So this is simply another stupid knee-jerk reaction, just like the famous decision that nearly wrecked the US telecommunications market by attacking "Ma Bell".
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