Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration

• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It literally is if you have a monopoly.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It isn’t. And they don’t.

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    • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      While I disagree with the other commenter’s approach and attitude, he/she/they are partially correct.

      There is no legal obligation for a company to fund or assist its competition, even if it holds a significant marketshare. The companies that do help their competition, like Microsoft with Apple in 1997 or Google with Mozilla today, begrugingly choose to do it so their lawyers can make the argument that they are not a monopoly because they still have competition.

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        If they’ve already been deemed a monopoly? Sure. That’s a response to anticompetitive behavior.

        like Microsoft with Apple in 1997

        Don’t know anything about that.

        Google with Mozilla today

        That’s funny because this is the opposite of what you seem to be suggesting. This is not helping their competition, this is paying another company hundreds of million dollars to be anticompetitive against their competition. Its the exact anticompetitive behavior that caused them to be labeled a monopoly.

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They literally objectively, have monopolistic anti-competitive power, largely thanks to blind dick riding gamers like you.

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        They literally, objectively, have, monopolistic anti-competitive power

        They literally don’t.

        in literally every single western democracy you have special obligations to actually further competition

        You literally don’t.

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