On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 17:16, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
No, this isn't a joke.
Then it is out of this reality :)
Antitrust law applies to anyone who is dominant on a market, where dominant="more than 40% marketshare" in Poland (It's not defined in US law). So in Poland Apache Group would be quite restricted in what they can do, because of their "dominant position on HTTP servers market". In particular it would be illegal to "restrict competition in other markets by abusing their dominant position on this market",
If the ASF changed the httpd to GPL, other companies either have to compete with a derived version of the apache httpd they use, make their derived work GPL, or turn to proprietary httpds.
It does not in anyway restrict competition. I think it even fosters competition.
Hugs, rui