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Amazon has copied 50,000+ items, some open source, some proprietary SaaS, they surely weren't all garbage undeserving of success. Predatory platforms might be
by benologist 7y ago
Amazon has copied 50,000+ items, some open source, some proprietary SaaS, they surely weren't all garbage undeserving of success. Predatory platforms might be the actual problem.
- toasterlovin 7y agoFWIW, it seems like you're referring to software. I'm commenting solely on their retail business (and that's what the linked article is about).
- benologist 7y agoThe 50,000+ items are physical things across their many brands, they're facing an antitrust action in the EU for the possibility sales data is the deciding factor for what to copy. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-19-4291_en.htm http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-19-4291_en.htm
- toasterlovin 7y agoFWIW, every major retailer can use the exact same data about in-store sales to determine which products to private label.
- ajhurliman 7y agoSource?
- sdan 7y agoAWS
- ApolloFortyNine 7y agoLicenses to stop 'software as a service' from being able to make changes without publishing them back have been around since 2002 [1]. You can hardly develop open source software and then be shocked when someone goes ahead and uses it within their rights. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License