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To: ratan lal who wrote (42530)	12/17/1997 1:00:00 PM
From: Barry A. Watzman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

>re: You cannot take the engine out of the car, put in someone elses engine and sell it to the customer. Sure you can, the dealer can do exactly that unless it is prohibited by the dealer's agreement with the manufacturer. For example, factory radios are removed and replaced with 3rd party sound systems all the time. And while I did say "unless it is prohibited by the dealer's agreement with the manufacturer", in some cases such a prohibition is itself deemed to be anticompetitive and in violation of antitrust laws. That is exactly what is happening in the current case with DOJ vs. MS. In order to defend your position, you have to agrue that we should not have antitrust laws and laws against unfair competition at all. But however valid such an argument might be, the fact is that we DO have such laws, and it does seem clear to me that in this case MS is guilty of violating them.