s Fizz Cola. He may be forced to move away with his family, since he was the only source of income and now his dad has become ill. All the kids in the neighborhood go to the town meeting, that week, including Ed and Ned. Some kids say they don’t want to have to drink Fizz Cola every day, some say they can’t drink carbonated drinks, and some say they don’t have the extra money to spend every day. So the town council must come up with some solutions. The town council comes up with three possible solutions:1.They could make no changes in the way Ed is handling his business, thus forcing Ned to move out with his parents. 2.The second choice is to split Ed into two separate companies, thus causing him to lower the price back to twenty-five cents.3.The third choice is to double the price and force Ed to offer both Fizz Cola and Bubble Cola. Both Ed and Ned would split the profits evenly" (Mettler, 1-3).Microsoft is engaging in unfair business practices and should split off their network company; should offer both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape on Windows; or a consent decree should be issued to require Microsoft to stop making exclusionary contracts with computer makers and Internet Service Providers (“ISPs”).Microsoft is being sued by the Department of Justice for giving away a copy of Internet Explorer with every new Windows 95 sale, violating a consent decree the two parties signed in 1995. They are also accused of being in violation of the Sherman Act, which prohibits a firm from participating in exclusionary or predatory acts. Back in 1994 the Justice Department announced that Microsoft agreed to end practices that were illegal. These practices, the government said, choked off competition and inflated prices in the personal computer software industry. Elizabeth Corcoran writes that “many computer companies were forced to buy computer software even if they never used it, as in cases...
