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Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus by cortesoft on Saturday August 27, 2022 @04:17PM (#32622769)
How would this proposed law work? I am really curious how you would word a law to enforce this.
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Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus by woofcat on Saturday August 27, 2022 @05:58PM (#32623649)
Isn't there already laws against established companies using their market position to price under cost to cut out competition?
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Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus by cortesoft on Sunday August 28, 2022 @07:07PM (#32633013)
There are laws against 'dumping', which is selling goods at a loss to drive out competitors, but those are fairly narrow in scope. It would be hard to enforce a more general restriction on not being profitable.
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Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus by mstipetic on Saturday August 27, 2022 @04:38PM (#32622947)
I really have no idea. Since the market values uber or a buy now pay later widget (or at least used to) at 50+ billion I'm not sure I understand much how things work. Maybe we need a reluctant philosopher king like in Plato's Republic.
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