From: "Geo." 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
news:3ecdd615$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> But why would offering the same price with the same incentive in mind
> (i.e. to drive out competition ("Don't lose to Linux") be
any fairer if
> applied to all?

Because it is possible to give product away to one company while funding
that give away with the profits from 4 other sales but if every sale has to
be at the same price then either you make a profit or you don't on every
sale. You can't say, "don't lose to linux" without giving every
other customer the same deal.

> What the law is there to stop is not people charging what the market
> will stand but to stop people abusing a dominant market position.

We aren't talking about what the market will stand, we are talking about
what each individual sale will stand. It's like selling cars if you don't
have to charge everyone the same price for the same car.

Geo.

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