Agreed. It sounds like the author is envisioning a society where regulators have a hell of a lot of power- would every price change a company made need to be given the OK? I guess the litagators would have a field day. Doesn't every profitable company have a monopoly on its niche space? Not all monopolies are equal
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?
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Agreed. It sounds like the author is envisioning a society where regulators have a hell of a lot of power- would every price change a company made need to be given the OK? I guess the litagators would have a field day. Doesn't every profitable company have a monopoly on its niche space? Not all monopolies are equal
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.
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."