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Jujutsu: a new, Git-compatible version control system

Jujutsu: a new, Git-compatible version control system

Posted Jan 25, 2024 0:17 UTC (Thu) by rqosa (subscriber, #24136)
In reply to: Jujutsu: a new, Git-compatible version control system by paulj
Parent article: Jujutsu: a new, Git-compatible version control system

> The issue that led to the antitrust case in the USA was the web browser, […]

The real reason I posted that comment was to dispute spacefrogg's statement that "it is bad for society if companies are allowed to give stuff away for free, because this creates a situation where people easily get dependent on the free stuff", on the basis that a monopolistic company (e.g. Microsoft circa 2001) should not be considered equal to a smaller & less-powerful company (e.g. Netscape circa 2001), let alone to a non-wealthy individual person (e.g. some random hobbyist programmer who has some Git repos hosted on Codeberg today).

Antitrust law (both in the US and in the EU) certainly doesn't treat monopolists the same as non-monopolists, by design. And for good reason, IMO.

> […] and MS leveraging their Windows monopoly to bundle IE for free into Windows

Exactly my point: MS's Windows monopoly was a necessary condition which needed to be met in order for the government to sue MS (for violating antitrust law).


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