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Re:Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You by dragonwriter on Saturday August 15, 2020 @02:19PM (#24171014)
Profit-seeking with market power is rent-seeking.
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Re:Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You by perl4ever on Saturday August 15, 2020 @08:54PM (#24173821)
I think it's very destructive of meaningful discussion to redefine a term of jargon in order to exploit the stigma of the original definition while talking about something else.
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Re:Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You by dragonwriter on Sunday August 16, 2020 @06:19AM (#24176646)
No, if you have market/pricing (empirical monopoly) power, profit-maximizing behavior is inherently rent-seeking by the standard definition.
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