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Google Loses Antitrust Case Brought by Epic Games (archive.ph)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Original (pay-walled): https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-loses-antitrust-case-brought-by-epic-games-651f5987

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

good luck with that angle, practically "all" creative industry software have a free learning or community edition until you cross certain threshold and they are also all very dominant software, not because there are no competition, but more like existing market share friction. Like asking Maya artist to transition to Blender.

There are also plenty of game engine out there that are free or cheaper, UE4 or UE5 aren't exactly click 2 buttons and you have a game. (in fact, people spend decent amount of time to trim features/plugins they don't use/need from the source to cut build time and memory cost for the shipping build.