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To: i-node who wrote (516657)	10/25/2012 11:01:02 AM
From: LindyBill	16 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794011

Predatory pricing is an extremely powerful weapon. I don't think the public is well served by allowing it without any controls at all. "Predatory." Sure sounds nasty, doesn't it? It's a pejorative term used to describe something we don't like. The word is defined as the use of force or fraud. In a Free Enterprise market place with a good Judicial system, there is no use of force or fraud. It's a key term to the Left. Marxists have sold it as the bad part of Capitalism. To them, there is no difference in the use of a gun and the use of the market. As long as you believe it, the Socialist has a useful way to beat you in a political discussion. You will always fall back on, "now I am for Capitalism, BUT, you have to have laws to stop predatory pricing." That gives the Leftist the opening he needs to put you on the slippery slope to Socialism.

To: i-node who wrote (516657)	10/25/2012 11:51:20 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 794011

Today there are so many free alternatives to almost all commercial applications that only in certain size levels of the market are the usefulness of predatory pricing of any use. And those for only a short time. The computing power available for pennies along with the free software tools allow the duplication of cheap alternatives within months. selling hardware that locks in a user to your disposable part of a product, games, razor blades, software application or file format will only be for some short term period. continued advances in tech make cornering a market a more and more impossible game plan for other than some short period.