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To: dayglored

What do you mean, “They had to”? Did the government or someone make them do so?


40 posted on 08/14/2007 4:01:02 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Still Thinking
> What do you mean, “They had to”? Did the government or someone make them do so?

Their own customers and OEMs gave them no end of grief, and (as I recall) they relented. The government didn't have a thing to do with it -- marketplace pressures did.

46 posted on 08/14/2007 5:40:13 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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