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To: Doug Fowler who wrote (15366)	12/22/1997 7:16:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 24154

If a company improves a product are they required by some law of Fowler to charge extra or can they sell it for the same price as a product improvement that inures to the public benefit. Dumping is really a pretty complex international case and generally involves commodity type products. We are talking about intellectual property here. By the way the copy of NSCP Comm. that I use cost me 0$-nada as they say in Mexico!

To: Doug Fowler who wrote (15366)	12/22/1997 7:52:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Although I'm no legal expert, it seems to me that the traditional concept of dumping cannot be applied. The economics of the software industry are unique in that there is a fixed up-front cost of product development, but if, for example, bundled with another for-sale product (on the same CD), there is absolutely no ongoing cost for it. Thus, one could argue that giving it away is supplying it at cost (zero), at least once it has been sold long enough to make up for the up-front development costs.