Forcing you to use a service when you have bought an unrelated service is anticompetitive. For example, bundling a particular browser with an OS, or forcing you to use a vendor’s store because you’ve bought a vendor’s product.
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Feyd@programming.dev 2 days agoWhat anticompetitive practices? This normally refers to things like selling at a loss long enough to destroy fledgling competition and the like. As far as I’m aware, steam just… provides good services that other stores don’t?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I’m just hoping a VC firm doesn’t come along and hostile takeover them at some point, because that would be the death knell.
Glytch@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They aren’t publicly traded so put those fears to rest until Gaben dies (may that be FAR in the future), then we have to hope his successor has a similar mindset.