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The difference is that predatory pricing includes an expectation of future profits from that product. So it makes sense to exclude perpetual free licenses like
by yccs27 4y ago
The difference is that predatory pricing includes an expectation of future profits from that product. So it makes sense to exclude perpetual free licenses like open source from the definition.
- rich_sasha 4y agoPresumably Google benefits financially from the Android ecosystem. Play store if nothing else. You can imagine a different world where many mobile OS providers exist, charge you for the system, then comes out Google with free Android, kills the competition and then milks monopoly pricing.
- wodenokoto 4y agoNot presumably. Around the release of android, google was quoting estimated earnings in the billions of dollars from a free and open source Android, purely from capturing mobile ad views/clicks.