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Europe has loads of nice things. You should visit sometime. This ruling, presumably, is about a big company subsidising its unprofitable mapping business with
by nodata 15y ago
Europe has loads of nice things. You should visit sometime.
This ruling, presumably, is about a big company subsidising its unprofitable mapping business with another part of its business until the small fish die.
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- _delirium 15y agoThere's no blanket prohibition on offering things for free that cost money to develop. There are free French search engines and newspapers with free websites, for example, as well as French companies that develop open-source software. A court would have to find that the free service is being cross-subsidized and offered at a loss for the purpose of driving competitors out of business, to later profit from (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing). That's also illegal in the U.S., but U.S. courts tend to require a higher bar to demonstrate it.
- dudeguy999 15y agoSo there is no rule of law in France. You just open your business and hope for the best?
- ghc 15y ago> Europe has loads of nice things. You should visit sometime. HN is not a place for flame wars about countries (or continents). He had a valid point, as he was referencing the hostile legal climate for doing (some kinds of) business in several European countries (and in some cases the EU).
- DeanCollinsLCC 15y agolol like the USA is a hostile legal place to do business :)
- ori_b 15y agoBut that's how all of Google works. It subsidizes everything it does with it's advertising business.