I'm not sure that this specifically would risk breaching any antitrust regulations. There is still plenty of competition in their respective sectors, Akamai and

I'm not sure that this specifically would risk breaching any antitrust regulations. There is still plenty of competition in their respective sectors, Akamai and Linode are more or less complimenting one another's services with minimal overlap, there's nothing to suggest that this will result in any meaningful impact to the ability for open market influences to determine their pricing, it doesn't appear to generate any conflicting interests or provide either company with an unfair advantage over their competitors, and it doesn't grant Akamai any outsized leverage in any of its areas of interest. I'm personally of the opinion that a greater diversity of many smaller companies is almost always preferable to homogeneity and the anticompetitive inclinations that come with the vertically integrated corporations that currently plague a good bit of the tech sector, but Akamai + Linode doesn't strike me as the same kind of threat as the larger players. That said, I am a longtime happy Linode customer, and the prospect of anything coming along to dilute their current offerings and practices is concerning. But they've earned the benefit of the doubt, so until I have some specific reason to do otherwise I'll be sticking with them.