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Unlike others here (based on the downvotes), I don't think your concerns are entirely unfounded. Google is a classic example of a company that scorches the eart
by reitzensteinm 7y ago
Unlike others here (based on the downvotes), I don't think your concerns are entirely unfounded. Google is a classic example of a company that scorches the earth with their freeware releases - remember Kiko?
But ultimately, whatever is best for the consumer needs to win out. If freeware knocks out commercial competitors then stagnates (like Internet Explorer), that's bad, and analogous to dumping which is not legal.
If it's just better product and continues to be, like Google Calendar, the world is simply better off.
- ossworkerrights 7y agoRight, same goes for google. Remember folks, free software and free products means you are the product. And in the process other companies and tools are being put of business while the masses cheers for yet another free tool, forgetting these are made by monopolies that use them as marketing.
- soylentgraham 7y agoYou're confusing google (an advertising company) for unity (a product store). They're not trying to acquire users for marketing, they're trying to acquire users into their ecosystem and bring more dependence on their tools, their asset store products, and make the unity ecosystem worth more. It's a land grab. Ditto for VFX industry that they and Epic are trying to get into.
- ossworkerrights 7y agoHopefully it's not the same kind of land grab, where a large company will "nick" successful products off of their asset store and release them "free of charge".