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So you’re saying that it’s illegal for a company to subsidize it’s unprofitable products by using funds from more successful products? Because that’s basically

by wwtrv 5y ago

So you’re saying that it’s illegal for a company to subsidize it’s unprofitable products by using funds from more successful products? Because that’s basically what’s Google business model was from the beginning (i.e. release a bunch of free stuff to tie in users into their ecosystem and gather their data) : Gmail, Maps, Docs, Chrome are illegal because they are/were subsidized by the Search/Ads business? Have dumping laws ever been actually applied to software?

ClumsyPilot 5y ago
That is my understabding of what dumping laws mean. Many laws have not been properly tested on software, even ownership of data is still sketchy. I am saying that, as scrutiny of software conpanies increases, and a new generation of lawmakers comes in that has some computer literacy, chances that any dumping laws will be applied increase dramatically