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Re:How can we get Google Support? by tomkarlo on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @11:33AM (#5525752)
So should free Internet sites be illegal? The NYT used to be free, now it's paid. Is that evil? Is HN evil for not charging?

Anti-dumping laws make sense when you're talking about hard goods with a concrete marginal cost of goods sold (like coffee.) Theydon't make much sense for web sites and software.

Re:How can we get Google Support? by rplnt on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @02:45PM (#5527169)
It's not about being free or not. You shouldn't operate with loss only to drive customers away from competition. That being said, I don't believe these laws should apply to online services. It's entirely different market. I was mentioning it because the example with Starbucks couldn't happen, thus it was a bad example.