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Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati... by clhodapp on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @06:47PM (#14608636)
If ever there were a use case for a lawsuit punitive damages, some poor company that is driven out of business by a well-documented case of this would be it. I know I'm being naive here but I feel that it should be clear to anyone with a sense of propriety that the big company should have to pay the liquidation cost for the small one!
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Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati... by astrodust on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @09:54PM (#14609568)
Yes, suing your biggest distributor is a great way to succeed in business.
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Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati... by clhodapp on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:46PM (#14609778)
That's exactly my point! That and the fact that lawmakers are too weak willed (or have too little leverage) to take a stand against stuff like this is why big businesses are able to get away with this blatantly unethical behavior. Anyway, my example was an already-failed business for a reason!
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Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati... by emodendroket on Thursday June 22, 2017 @09:44AM (#14612159)
If you're liquidating the business, as the OP describes, I doubt that's your biggest concern.
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Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati... by astrodust on Thursday June 22, 2017 @03:39PM (#14614741)
Lawsuits are expensive and utterly pointless if you can't see them through to completion.
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Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati... by emodendroket on Friday June 23, 2017 @08:16AM (#14618583)
I don't see what one objection has to do with the other.
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