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French Court Calls Free Google Maps Unfair Competition

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 2, 2012 @05:21AM from the protecting-people-from-benefits dept.

jfruh writes "A French court has ruled that Google is unfairly subsidizing its free mapping products, making for unfair competition with paid services. This might seem ridiculous, but keep in mind that Google started charging for use of its mapping API once the free version had come to dominate the market."

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Re:Airbus by countertrolling · 2012-02-02 05:42 · Score: 5, Funny

Airbuses are free? I'll take two

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Re:This was predicted to happen two years ago by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-02 05:49 · Score: 5, Funny

There's no danger of Linux gaining market ascendancy.
Re:This was predicted to happen two years ago by Jorl17 · 2012-02-02 05:49 · Score: 5, Funny

Given the trend, we'll have to pay Microsoft for it, no matter what laws they break.

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