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> What if there are multiple vendors selling algorithms?

Then each vendor’s customers may constitute a small price fixing conspiracy, which is still illegal (price fixing doesn’t have a market threshold before it is illegal) but also a lot less effective, so it probably would be a transitory condition even if it didn’t get punished.




What about open source apps? Formulas from blog articles or Wikipedia?




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