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To: Petz who wrote (226335)	2/18/2007 10:46:17 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"I do admit that cellophane tape is MORE of a commodity than microprocessors are, but its a tough line to draw, and if anti-competitive behavior is aparent, I don't think the "not-a-commodity" argument will hold water." Not really if it is considered in context. At the time that these laws were drawn up, you basically had commodities and luxuries. Commodities were the basic underpinnings of the economy, luxuries weren't. So the intent of the laws were to make sure that a single company could not get a stranglehold on something that the economy depended on. But, things have changed. Which is why 3M lost. And Intel is in danger. Processors aren't commodities in the traditional sense. But they are even more crucial to the US and even the world economy than most commodities are. To give pricing control over such a crucial component to a single company is a very dangerous thing to do. Which is the whole point of the anti-trust laws.