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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by ummonk on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:29AM (#17559287)
It is incredible seeing Google being seriously attacked on here for have an open source path as well. I feel like this is some sort of alternative universe.

Exactly. The takeaway from this seems to be to not open up your system a little bit, because then you'll need to go all the way. Whereas e.g. Apple, which built a completely closed phone system from the start, doesn't get any trouble (even when it dominated the smartphone market). Really backwards ruling. And I say this as someone who happily switched to an iPhone to escape Google's data collection.

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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by Khaine on Thursday July 19, 2018 @05:41AM (#17564909)
No its not. There are a lot of Americans being obtusely dense on this. There is nothing wrong with open source. There is nothing wrong with opening the source of a product.

"Google has used Android as a vehicle to cement the dominance of its search engine. These practices have denied rivals the chance to innovate and compete on the merits. They have denied European consumers the benefits of effective competition in the important mobile sphere," Ms Vestager said.

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