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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Motorola policy
Message-ID: <3138@phri.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 88 15:05:19 GMT
References: <4227@utai.UUCP> <1029@edge.UUCP> <2167@tekred.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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Keywords: Intel IBM

In article <1029@edge.UUCP>, doug@edge.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes:
> [speaking of Motorola policy in 1980]
> Motorola makes the 68000, but by company policy they won't sell them for
> use in home computers.

	Isn't that restraint of trade, and thus illegal?  Aren't you
required by (US) law to give the same deal to all your customers, i.e. if
you will sell 68000's to XYZ Computer Company for $N each, in 1000 piece
lots, you must also sell them to anybody else with the same conditions,
regardless of what they plan on doing with them?
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016