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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: OSF and FTC?
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.165722@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 00:57:22 GMT
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In article <9102071926.AA17803@fis1.shearson.com>, fgreco@govt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco) writes:
|> There was a little piece in the NY Times
|> about the OSF being investigated by the
|> Federal Trade Commision for antitrust violations.

There have been reports on this in many of the trade rags.  Apparently,
some small software vendors are claiming that the OSF Request For
Technology process is forcing prices down in some formerly profitable
areas (graphical user interfaces, for example) and thus hurting their
business.  One of these vendors may have asked the FTC to investigate
on the grounds that OSF "standards" are hurting competition.  The FTC
has not filed any charges in the matter and would not confirm that an
investigation is in progress.

-- 
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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