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You need market power in order to restrain trade.

First off: that's not what the statute says. And again you've failed to provide any documentation for your claims (as adventured has also failed to do).

So I'll leave it there.

As for Wharton's making statements elsewhere: it's my recollection that he had. I haven't looked for them ... and no, don't see anything that's a specific match, though you can certainly place Wharton at Intel and having met with Gates while there.



> First off: that's not what the statute says. And again you've failed to provide any documentation for your claims (as adventured has also failed to do).

As I've already stated, it doesn't matter what the statute says. It matters what the courts have interpreted. See other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7188995

As for sources, see any textbook in antitrust law. Or just Google for the words "market power" and "restraint of trade. " These are not controversial concepts in antitrust law. You don't need a citation to say that the sky is blue.

There are such things are per se violations, but the courts have chipped away at this concept. For example, vertical segmentation used to be a per se violation, but today it is subject to the rule of reason.

> As for Wharton's making statements elsewhere: it's my recollection that he had. I haven't looked for them ... and no, don't see anything that's a specific match, though you can certainly place Wharton at Intel and having met with Gates while there.

It's certainly ironic that you don't provide a citation for this, when you're so aggressive about demanding citations from other people.




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