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Re:Uber's Still Not Profitable by yccs27 on Sunday August 07, 2022 @06:05AM (#32375264)
The difference is that predatory pricing includes an expectation of future profits from that product. So it makes sense to exclude perpetual free licenses like open source from the definition.
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Re:Uber's Still Not Profitable by rich_sasha on Sunday August 07, 2022 @06:49AM (#32375470)
Presumably Google benefits financially from the Android ecosystem. Play store if nothing else.

You can imagine a different world where many mobile OS providers exist, charge you for the system, then comes out Google with free Android, kills the competition and then milks monopoly pricing.

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Re:Uber's Still Not Profitable by wodenokoto on Sunday August 07, 2022 @08:22AM (#32375911)
Not presumably. Around the release of android, google was quoting estimated earnings in the billions of dollars from a free and open source Android, purely from capturing mobile ad views/clicks.
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