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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Open Source: in conflict with the development process in the Ada
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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:11:41 -0400
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Anti-trust laws might force you to unbundle products. When a computer
company sells you hardware and throws in a "free" OS and other software, it
isn't really "free", is it? The courts may stop it under an anti-trust suit,
but companies have been giving away stuff "free" for a long time now and I
don't know of any laws that would stop it. (Giving away razors to sell the
blades is the usual example.)

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"Florian Weimer" <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote in message
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>
> Regulations against unfair competition.  Hmm, I couldn't find a
> reference to specific German law, but I remember a few cases in which
> companies were forced to stop giving services away for free.  However,
> I'm no longer sure if general provisions against unfair competition
> were applied, or some special case law (telco regulations, for
> example).