[Info-vax] Oracle and HP end Exadata partnership

[P. Sture]

In article 
<04497f7b-c36a-4cd8-b46e-0761ee914a23 at l34g2000vba.googlegroups.com>,
 John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sep 19, 2:48 pm, "P. Sture" <paul.nos... at sture.ch> wrote:

> > It wasn't until 1973 that the UK introduced the Monopolies and Mergers
> > Commission:
> >
> > <http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0021873.htm
> > l>
> >
> > If memory serves correctly, UK supermarkets weren't even allowed to
> > offer discount prices until the late 50s or early 60s (which meant that
> > there weren't really many of them). That's within living memory. :-)
> >
> 
> That'll be Resale Price Maintenance you're thinking of, which a quick
> but unverified search says was abolished in the UK in 1964. Books were
> exempted from the rule for reasons which escape me (see also Net Book
> Agreement, not to be confused with netbook agreement). So not within
> living memory of your average Windows/Linux devotee, but maybe OK for
> dinosaurs like me.

It isn't easy Googling for UK history on these matters...

I managed to come up with the link below. According to "The Economic 
History of Britain" (a Google book) there was a 1948 Monopolies and 
Restrictive Practices Act but it and successive acts seem to have been 
toothless until the introduction of the MMC in 1973.

<http://preview.tinyurl.com/mcfo4z>

And yes I remember the Net Book Agreement clearly.

-- 
Paul Sture