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to: Mike `/m`
from: Geo.
date: 2003-05-17 11:59:36
subject: Re: EU mulls antitrust action against MS

From: "Geo." 

"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
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> >> Yup... In the EU we have anti-predatory pricing laws......
> >
> >question: when competing against a free product (linux) do they even
apply?
>
> A competitor is a competitor.

I'm questioning whether a free product can be considered subject to pricing
law. Consider this possibility, Linux becomes the new standard running 95%
of the computers, can everyone else now claim it's predatory pricing? That
just doesn't seem right to me, I can drink free water or I can drink
bottled water, I don't see the bottled water people claiming predatory
pricing.

Geo.

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