Gitlab has introduced a five-user limit for free groups

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160 points MattIPv4 | 1 comments | 20 Jun 23 17:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

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pierat ◴[20 Jun 23 17:57 UTC] No.36407913[source]▶

This applies to the SaaS Gitlab ONLINE. This doesn't apply to Gitlab you install on your hardware.

I mean, online resources on other peoples' servers cost money.

A better law would be to forbid "free" offerings by companies. They all are fraudulent "free", since you pay a commercial entity with either money or data. And, corporate "free" rarely stays free.

(This also doesn't have to be a new law, but application of false and deceptive advertising relating to the FTC, around the term of "free".)

Edit: Found the rule, already in FTC's federal regs: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-B...

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kobalsky ◴[20 Jun 23 19:18 UTC] No.36409104[source]▶

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> And, corporate "free" rarely stays free.

or they use "free" to nuke competitors from orbit, salt the ground to ensure nobody can get a dime for a decade in this industry, hoard all the expertise then increase your pricing by orders of magnitude like it happened with Google Maps.

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1. pierat ◴[20 Jun 23 19:53 UTC] No.36409577[source]▶

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We used to enforce monopoly regulations, and similar types of anticompetitive behaviors that kill swaths of markets. And that's exactly what happened with what you described with Google maps.

This scheme is basically dumping, where you (a company) lower the price of your good and then flood the market to kill all competitors. Then when they're good and dead, you jack up the prices to extortionate levels and sit back and get piles of money, from people with no choice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)

The last big antitrust push we had was against Microsoft. And after the judge was replaced for improper communication during trial, MS and DoJ settled. Basically, was a huge case then "Oops nevermind".

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