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> The most obvious example would be if they only applied it specific racial groups or something like that - highly illegal. Right, discrimination based on prot
by consteval 2y ago
> The most obvious example would be if they only applied it specific racial groups or something like that - highly illegal.
Right, discrimination based on protected classes is illegal.
Discrimination based on other needs is not illegal, and is in fact how all businesses work. They discriminate based on income, based on how you're dressed, based on how nice you are.
> This would almost certainly be considered a violation of antitrust laws.
Not allowing abuse and DDOS of your free services is just not on this level. Sorry, in my opinion it's not even close to comparable.
If Amazon was your competitor and they also issued hundreds of thousands of requests to one of your FREE APIs would you foot the bill? Fat chance, right? That's what we're talking about here.
- bawolff 2y ago> Not allowing abuse and DDOS of your free services is just not on this level. Sure, the debate is because its not really believable that that was happening, and sounds like a pretense. > If Amazon was your competitor That's the core dispute though. WPEngine is not a competitor of word press foundation. It is a competitor of automattic. For word press foundation to treat competitors to automattic as competitors to themselves seems highly unethical and possibly a violation of fiduciary duty.