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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Feb 2, 2012, 12:34:29 PM2/2/12
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A French court has ruled that Google's free Google Maps application API
is anti-competitive and has ordered the company to pay €500,000 to
Bottin Cartographes, a for-pay map company, as well as a €15,000 fine.
http://boingboing.net/2012/02/02/french-court-rules-that-its.html
As the above article mentions, what happens when OpenStreetMap produces
the same kind of free maps?
-wolfgang
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Peter H. Coffin
Feb 2, 2012, 1:43:02 PM2/2/12
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On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:34:29 -0800, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>
> A French court has ruled that Google's free Google Maps application API
> is anti-competitive and has ordered the company to pay ???500,000 to
>
> A French court has ruled that Google's free Google Maps application API
> Bottin Cartographes, a for-pay map company, as well as a ???15,000 fine.
>
> http://boingboing.net/2012/02/02/french-court-rules-that-its.html
>
> As the above article mentions, what happens when OpenStreetMap produces
> the same kind of free maps?
It too will be anti-competitive, and have judgment won against it.
> http://boingboing.net/2012/02/02/french-court-rules-that-its.html
>
> As the above article mentions, what happens when OpenStreetMap produces
> the same kind of free maps?
Guaranteed profits and price-fixing are the *essense* of competition in
France.
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Alan Browne
Feb 2, 2012, 8:39:03 PM2/2/12
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On 2012-02-02 12:34 , Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>
> A French court has ruled that Google's free Google Maps application API
> is anti-competitive and has ordered the company to pay €500,000 to
> Bottin Cartographes, a for-pay map company, as well as a €15,000 fine.
>
> http://boingboing.net/2012/02/02/french-court-rules-that-its.html
Google will appeal (as it says in the article). Google make cash off
>
> A French court has ruled that Google's free Google Maps application API
> is anti-competitive and has ordered the company to pay €500,000 to
> Bottin Cartographes, a for-pay map company, as well as a €15,000 fine.
>
> http://boingboing.net/2012/02/02/french-court-rules-that-its.html
the advertising and they only need to show that their model works and is
an alternate form of capitalism that they excel at and that Bottin
Cartographiques are non-competitive because they are still in 1970.
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Ted Ferenc
Feb 3, 2012, 8:56:29 AM2/3/12
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On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:34:29 -0800, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> A French court has ruled that Google's free Google Maps application API
> is anti-competitive and has ordered the company to pay €500,000 to
> Bottin Cartographes, a for-pay map company, as well as a €15,000
> fine.
>
> http://boingboing.net/2012/02/02/french-court-rules-that-its.html
>
> As the above article mentions, what happens when OpenStreetMap produces
> the same kind of free maps?
>
> -wolfgang
Wasn't the reason given that Google give the data away for free then in a
> is anti-competitive and has ordered the company to pay €500,000 to
> Bottin Cartographes, a for-pay map company, as well as a €15,000
> fine.
>
> http://boingboing.net/2012/02/02/french-court-rules-that-its.html
>
> As the above article mentions, what happens when OpenStreetMap produces
> the same kind of free maps?
>
> -wolfgang
few years start charging for it as they are doing for use of the map api
now, and in the mean time the competition has been closed down. Now if
the data was guaranteed to be free for ever there would not be a problem,
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Ted Ferenc. (http://walks.ndrw.co.uk http://ndrw.co.uk)
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