[ale] M$ refund

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net (tom)]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Scott Castaline wrote:

> Jim Popovitch wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 09:10, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
>>> Maybe a Justice department not run by a W appointee will look into
>>> resuming the anti-trust case Ashcroft let die.
>>
>> Don't hold your breath. ;-)
>>
>>> Agreements that say what a vendor can sell when NOT selling your product
>>> sure sound anti-competitive (monopolistic) to me.
>>
>> Possibly, but why did the vendor sign the contract with the product
>> producer (also a vendor)?   What you've hit on is the greed of the
>> middle man. ;-)
>>
> Could also be for survival as M$ has the reputation of "Crush, Kill,
> Destroy!"
Didn't you leave out the parts of the reputation for maim, fold, spindle, 
and mutilate??