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Authored by: jesse on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 01:38 PM EDT |
There are a ton of users that "pay" for it by developing improvements
and sending that back.
You can't do that with any other phone system. Especially not those belonging to
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Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 02:31 PM EDT |
Microsoft gives away IE for free. Is that
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 02:47 PM EDT |
Last I heard, MS was paying people to use Bing.
I don't know how
you're using Bing that's different from my use. I can access Bing off my Linux
box through a non-MS browser giving full proper credentials for what I'm using
without being prompted for a subscription. Is Microsoft using predatory pricing
with Bing?
Or did you mean the Android OS was no-cost and therefore
predatory pricing?
If Android - with the Apache licensing - is predatory
costing, then so is Apache itself which anyone can download the source code of
for free and use. And Linux, and BSD protected code. However - The Courts have
already made clear that's not a practice of predatory pricing from the
definitions of Anti-competition.
You say Microsoft can't build a business
against such software. Please provide evidence of what is legally preventing
Microsoft from downloading Android (or Linux), making their own version (by
simply compiling it) and releasing it for free.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 09 2013 @ 03:48 PM EDT |
Not sure Android can even meet the definition of predatory pricing... which is
using less-than-cost pricing to corner market share or drive out a competitor.
What is the market? Android isn't a phone, its an OS. So in the phone market,
they aren't predatory, in fact, they encourage the competition to use it.
The OS market? Apple doesn't allow others to use IOS, so nothing there
(probably why Apple didn't sign onto this charade...). Microsoft sells Windows,
but according to reports, no one likes it and the complaints aren't about price.
Not to mention numerous industry analysts who have called on microsoft to open
up Windows and set it free so it could grow. M$ has not wanted anything to do
with that. That isn't about "the market", its about Microsoft's desire
to own and control that market.
Android provides an environment. Competition is free to play in that
environment, fork it, build it, whatever. Hardly predatory, and very
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