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0 pointsoblio5y ago0 comments

For physical products we have anti-dumping laws. You can't abuse your monopoly power to sell products below cost in order to take out competition.

We need something like this for software products.

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sandworm1015y ago

How would anti-dumping principals be applied to f/oss? For a long time, Ubuntu's number one bug was the existance of Windows. If company A is releasing a product for free, with the stated aim of damaging company B's market share, how is that not dumping?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1

"Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug which Ubuntu and other projects are meant to fix."

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0 pointsoblio5y ago0 comments

For physical products we have anti-dumping laws. You can't abuse your monopoly power to sell products below cost in order to take out competition.

We need something like this for software products.

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sandworm1015y ago

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1

"Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug which Ubuntu and other projects are meant to fix."

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