Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

But from a legal perspective [IANAL, but I'm pretty confident on this one], they can engineer the system to give them an advantage as long as they don't have an monopoly. When a company is a monopoly, new rules do apply.


Anti competitive practices are illegal, not monopolies.


A broad range of anti-competitive practices are illegal when you are a monopoly.

A much narrower range of anti-competitive practices are illegal when you are not a monopoly.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: