[9148] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: an Internet buying coop?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Sun Dec 19 15:37:39 1993
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 93 15:32:01 EST
From: stpeters@spare-parts.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
To: tenney@netcom.com, karl@mcs.com
Cc: nii_agenda@civicnet.org, com-priv@psi.com, communet@nysernet.org
Reply-To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
> Any attempt to mandate sales policies of this kind by a trade association is
> likely to run into BIG anti-trust problems. As a company which is about to
> join the CIX (like paperwork is being prepared now), I would be the first to
> vehemently oppose any such provision. Being a party to an anti-trust lawsuit
> is no fun at all.
Karl,
The current "Thou shalt deal only with CIX members" *is* a sales policy
of precisely the type you should fear.
--
Dick St.Peters
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
