IBM was accused of requiring its customers of buying its punch cards -- which were the way of entering data into a computer a generation ago. Monsanto requires people who purchase its seeds to use its herbicide, Roundup, which we discussed last week. Why is that not a tie-in? Maybe because the company claims to "rent" its seeds.
"Devine, James" wrote: > > > all I know is that back in the early 1970s, I was talking to > the information technology folks at work (at the Chicago Fed) > and they told me that IBM had been accused of anti-trust > violation because they'd set up one of their peripheral > machines so that it would only work with IBM mainframes. I do > not know anything more than that. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
