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The duck.com thing is definitely shitty and needs a solution, but they should be (in both cases, Android and Chrome) able to do whatever they want with their so
by TomMarius 8y ago
The duck.com thing is definitely shitty and needs a solution, but they should be (in both cases, Android and Chrome) able to do whatever they want with their software as long as they don't hurt anyone, and I mean actually hurt, not win over in business competition with their superior resources, services, planning, management, marketing and software - winning over your competitors is the whole point of business and is what we call "business risk" to the other side; are we really using the government to reduce business risk of a competing party and saying it's OK and desirable?
No one has (or should have) right to tell Google how should they color their house. Chrome is there to help with using Google products, that's it, why should they support their competitors for free? Everyone is free to download Firefox and you can even use it to use (free!) Google services. You can even use their source code to build your competing browser. We should be thankful.
I know I will be downvoted. Sad. The respect for private property is totally gone. It'd be nice to have a discussion, but I guess it's easier to downvote than to say "yes, it's OK to demand huge amounts of money at [implicit] gunpoint just for winning in business with a product, not unlike the one I'm making, that never hurt anyone".
Think of yourself, you're making a product and someone comes and says "hey, you need to support your competition, and also pay this huge fine even though you did nothing wrong except for fulfilling your legal duties to your shareholders". Tell me: Are you pointing your CRM SaaS customers to Salesforce? I guess not.
A local company in the Czech Republic (Seznam.cz) has a browser that is dozens of times more uncompetitive. Why aren't they fined? Because they're not as successful? Are we really going to punish businessmen for success? What happened to the "everyone is treated equally" principle?
Why aren't craft breweries fined for selling only their beer and no Pilsner?
P.S. duckduckgo.com is my main search engine.