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How comes nobody has sued them over that yet?!!
by eitland 7y ago
How comes nobody has sued them over that yet?!!
- Insanity 7y agoIt's the same as games saying: "windows only". They could argue that it's a technical requirement.
- eitland 7y agoIn the "Windows only" case it is kind of reasonable: supporting another platform takes work. When they are blocking other browsers explicitly despite the fact that the other platforms work that is a whole different level.
- Insanity 7y agoWell browsers with a different engine do work differently. By the way, I do disagree with this strategy. Just saying it is not necessarily something illegal.
- eitland 7y agoProblem was in this case it seems the product works fine across different engines, they just decided it was ok to block a competing product to limit comsumer choices and generally make the web a worse place ;-) Of course it doesn't have to be that black and white but they certainly makes it easy to dislike them at the moment.
- skykooler 7y agoIn this case it's more like a game detecting that it's being run through Wine, and blocking it, even if it would have worked fine.
- favadi 7y agoWhich rule they violated?
- mstade 7y agoI wonder if a case could be built on accessibility grounds actually...
- eitland 7y agoAbuse of dominant market position in one market (search) to push into other markets (browsers).
- magicalist 7y agoSkype is a Microsoft product, though?
- eitland 7y agoSorry, I thought it was about hangouts or something. Embarrassing, sorry, and thanks for pointing it out.