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Serious question: Would it be legal for them not to?

• civilitty 9y ago
  IANAL but I don't see a judge deciding that AWS doesn't have a million competitors in every dedicated server host or collocation datacenter, even when AWS was the only cloud infrastructure provider. As long as antitrust laws don't apply, freedom of association is pretty unassailable.
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• hueving 9y ago
  Yes, they don't have a monopoly or even close to one in VMs.
  • sp332 9y ago
    Or video streaming.
• dpitkin 9y ago
  See the recent Walmart / Amazon kerfuffle it's like employee non-competes to me http://fortune.com/2017/06/21/walmart-amazon-whole-foods/?__s=tqvt1rginghg8no6p98z http://fortune.com/2017/06/21/walmart-amazon-whole-foods/?__...
• dboreham 9y ago
  ianal but I was under the impression that in the US you need to provide equal service to any customer, or else be ready to tread very carefully to avoid legal consequences. This doesn't mean you have to give a competitor special pricing, but I think it does mean you have to sell them your catalog listed products and services at list price, or else be prepared to head to court eventually.
  • umanwizard 9y ago
    Where did this impression come from? I thought basically the opposite was true: that you could do business with whomever you want, as long as you're not discriminating against a protected class of people.