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After a period of consideration, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has decided that Uber is a transport service, just like any other taxi company. There is lot to say about Uber's use of untrained, non-professional drivers and other abusive practices.
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The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Declares Uber a Transport Service
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(Score: 2) by meustrus on Thursday December 21 2017, @03:12PM
That's like saying that tech companies are competitors, so common open source software is undesirable. And yet virtually everybody benefits from Linux. Most companies that do even contribute in some way to the common system's value, if not by direct development contributions then by creating additional projects like Docker and selling services that make it easier to get value out of the open source ecosystem.
Keeping your own closed-source dispatch system is only undesirable as long as nobody else opens up theirs. But software has proven that it's possible to break down that localized incentive and convince even corporations like Microsoft to be part of the open collaborative system and stop wasting time building and running their own version of the same thing everyone else is doing.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?