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- From: tsarna@endicor.com (Ty Sarna)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: CBM/Amiga vs NewTek/Toaster
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.181922.797@endicor.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 18:19:22 GMT
- References: <tdenbo.714750148@guru> <1992Aug26.222340.1234@pro-freedom.cts.com>
- Organization: Endicor Technologies, Inc., San Antonio, Texas
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- In article <1992Aug26.222340.1234@pro-freedom.cts.com> eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown) writes:
- > > ...Commodore told many of its dealers not to sign on as authorized
- > > Toaster Workstation dealers or else risk losing their official Commodore
- > > dealer status.
- >
- > My. What a nifty way of having your rear end torn off in court for
- > "illegal infringement of trade practices". CBM doesn't have a legal leg to
- > stand on with this and if they were stupid enough to write that down,
- > someone could have ripped 'em a new one. Manufacturers are NOT allowed to
- > dictate what retailers can sell or not sell. Sheesh...
-
- Oh yeah? Tell that to Apple and IBM, who were forcing dealers to choose
- which platform they could make educational sales on, and Sun, who won't
- (or at least wouldn't last I heard) allow anyone who sells their
- machines to sell competing SPARC-based machines (laptops, for example,
- are OK since Sun doesn't make one).
-
- Sleezy? Yes. Illegal? No, or at least filled with enough loopholes that
- it's easy to get away with.
-
- --
- Ty Sarna tsarna@endicor.com
-
- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
- safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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