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Apple Event LogoIn March, Apple informed the EU that it had agreed to acquire certain assets and hire employees from SigScalr, according to a notice published today on the European Commission's website.

SigScalr created the open-source observability platform SigLens, which companies can use to aggregate and analyze logs, metrics, and traces at massive scales for monitoring and debugging purposes. SigLens was known for being a cost-effective and fast solution compared to many competing platforms.

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Unregistered 4U
10 hours ago at 07:37 am
The EU regulators commented that the future for fining Apple is bright after allowing the acquisition of assets and employees from SigScalr. Since, after the acquisition, Apple has a 100% monopoly of those assets and employees and are due to receive a hefty fine.
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knappeduivel
10 hours ago at 07:46 am

Apple has a 100% monopoly of those assets and employees
Monopoly is usually about market dominance, not assets and employees.
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canadianreader
9 hours ago at 09:09 am

SigScalr created the open-source observability platform SigLens, which companies can use to aggregate and analyze logs, metrics, and traces at massive scales for monitoring and debugging purposes.
Instead of contributing to the open source code Apple chose to make it proprietary.
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963852741
9 hours ago at 08:34 am

Monopoly is usually about market dominance, not assets and employees.
He was sarcastic.
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Unregistered 4U
9 hours ago at 08:34 am

Monopoly is usually about market dominance, not assets and employees.
Usually doesn’t apply to the EU. :)

In the EU Apple only has a monopoly over products/services that contain their trademarked names (in other regions, referred to as “products/services made by that company”. Which is why “gatekeeper” was invented… to deal with the “problem” of there being legal method in existence at the time that would allow them to punish Apple for the crime of “having made successful things that their citizens wanted to buy.”
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