Apple Acquiring SigScalr

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.

This is a good purchase. Now Apple can ignore all of my Feedback Assistant reports in a more streamlined manner.

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.”

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.

Apple has a 100% monopoly of those assets and employees

Monopoly is usually about market dominance, not assets and employees.

SigLens is archived as open source: https://github.com/siglens/siglens and anyone is welcome to use what exists. It was released under the Apache 2.0 license, which allows others to fork and build on it. If Apple uses it to make improvement on the code and Apple's products/services, that's something Apple is allowed to do.

If it was GPL Apple wouldn't touch it with a stick.