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by trilobyte 773 days ago
It's just momentum at this point. They don't even have to play any of the traditional anti-trust / monopoly games that companies of yore did. Look at AWS and the Elasticsearch situation. Amazon didn't really do anything other than take an open source product, freely distributed, and run it as a service and profit from it. We can debate the morals of it, but it's a far cry from being proactively anti-competitive.