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alimbadayesterday at 4:27 PM2 repliesview on HN

What does antitrust have to do with the GitHub services downtime?


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abdullahkhalidsyesterday at 5:29 PM

The more stable/secure a monopoly is in its position the less incentive it has to deliver high quality services.

If a company can build a monopoly (or oligopoly) in multiple markets, it can then use these monopolies to build stability for them all. For example, Google uses ads on the Google Search homepage to build a browser near-monopoly and uses Chrome to push people to use Google Search homepage. Both markets have to be attacked simultaneously by competitors to have a fighting chance.

fsfloveryesterday at 4:53 PM

It regularly breaks the workflow for thousands of FLOSS projects.