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> protect their investment

Viewed another way, the preferential pricing they're giving to Claude Code (and only Claude Code) is anticompetitive behavior that may be illegal.

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Aurornis|1 month ago

This is a misunderstanding of the regulations.

They’re not obligated to give other companies access to their services at a discounted rate.

gpm|1 month ago

They may however be obligated to not give customers access to their services at a discounted rate either - predatory pricing is at least some of the time and in some jurisdictions illegal.

nebezb|1 month ago

Are you suggesting Anthropic has a “duty to deal” with anyone who is trying to build competitive products to Claude Code, beyond access to their priced API? I don’t think so. Especially not to a product that’s been breaking ToS.

eli|1 month ago

No, but I think they should. Or anti-trust was enforced through some other means. Or at all really.

Citing the ToS is circular logic. They set the terms and can change them whenever they want!

no-name-here|1 month ago

Do other companies have a similar "duty to deal" - for example, if Microsoft or Apple ToS forbid use of open source software with their software? Or if VS Code ToS forbid people from using VS Code to work on a competitor?