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Re:IOS devs put out a call to unite against Lodsys, other pa... by kragen on Monday August 01, 2011 @04:56PM (#2834352)
You may not have heard of this, but a union of companies is called a "trust", and there's an entire division of the Department of Justice devoted to preventing them from forming, and destroying them when they do arise: http://www.justice.gov/atr/
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Re:IOS devs put out a call to unite against Lodsys, other pa... by DenisM on Monday August 01, 2011 @11:42PM (#2835673)
Which is precisely why MPAA, RIAA, BSA, and other industry associations simply do not exist, right? :)
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Re:IOS devs put out a call to unite against Lodsys, other pa... by kragen on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @06:26AM (#2836621)
Congress has actually enacted specific legislation to exempt the MPAA and RIAA from some aspects of antitrust law. I don't know about the BSA.

To be more specific, though, there are some ways that companies can legally cooperate under current antitrust law — for example, standardizing screw threads and grades of steel. But boycotting the "products" of certain "vendors" is probably not among them.

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Re:IOS devs put out a call to unite against Lodsys, other pa... by jackpine on Monday August 01, 2011 @05:23PM (#2834532)
weak sauce. who let this guy on yc?
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