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Re:Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing by notatoad on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @02:29PM (#25837682)
would AWS be considered "dominant" though? they are the indisputably the market leader, but there's plenty of competition

(not trying to argue they aren't dominant. just curious)

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Re:Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing by M2Ys4U on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @03:57PM (#25838784)
I don't see why not.

British Airways only had a 38% market share when they were sued for abusing their dominant market position in 1998 (which was upheld by the Court of Justice in 2007)

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Re:Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing by CRConrad on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @03:50PM (#25838712)
Presumably they could. I mean, if the EU legislators had intended for a monopoly to be necessary to be considered “dominant”, then they could have written “monopoly”, couldn't they? They didn't write that, so it seems safe to presume they didn't intend that. And if anyone is dominant, then who, if not the market leader?
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