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> So it’s anticompetitive to give away tools for free or paying content owners to use it? If the intent is to drive others out of the market, it could be right
by mattnewton 4y ago
> So it’s anticompetitive to give away tools for free or paying content owners to use it?
If the intent is to drive others out of the market, it could be right?
- scarface74 4y agoSo what is the intent of any company that gives away software or any startup that operates at loss funded by VC money? Or if the same company gave its mobile operating system away for free to undercut a rival and then as soon as it became ubiquitous, started making much of it closed source and forcing companies to bundle its closed source software?
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- mattnewton 4y agoIf you ask Peter Thiel, it’s certainly not to engage in competition for the ultimate benefit of consumers. Not that he somehow speaks for everyone in VC funded startups at all. I just don’t find many other voices willing to say “competition is for losers” out loud where regulators might hear, even if the structure of their investments looks like it needs to find a monopoly to me.