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Criminalizing Free (French edition)
A few weeks ago, I speculated in a CNN editorial that antitrust authorities could make it illegal for dominant companies (read: Google) on the web to use Free, because it’s effectively offering a product below cost and subsidized by monopoly rent from another product. If that felt a bit far-fetched, consider this: Google is being sued in France for making Google Maps free. A French company wants to charge for a similar product.
