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That might be true, if GiHub were a monopoly. But they are not.
by granzymes 4y ago
That might be true, if GiHub were a monopoly. But they are not.
- chii 4y agoa lot of people confuse popular with monopoly.
- treis 4y agoAnd even more know that you don't need to be a monopoly to violate anti-trust laws.
- sofixa 4y agoIn the same vein that Google are not a monopoly in search, Microsoft are not a monopoly in consumer and business OSes, Chrome is monopoly in browsers, etc. Just because there is some existing competition which has a few percent marketshare and technically it's not a monopoly doesn't materially change anything besides a pro forma excuse. Which is why Google have been propping up Mozilla, they want the excuse "but technically there's another browser". However for consumers and the market it doesn't matter that technically there's an option that practically nobody uses.