You might like that Google Maps is free, but a French court says it's actually anticompetitive. A Paris Court earlier this week ordered Google France and its parent company Google to pay plaintiff Bottin Cartographes 500,000 euros (about $660,000) for providing its free mapping services to businesses across the country. The court also required Google to pay a 15,000 euro fine for its practice. Acceptance of French court that such 'free' service aims to drive competition out of business also means it is aimed at creation of a monopoly as well (but that is just my opinion).
maps are maps... it will go on forever (the argument). someone will always want to make money out of someone else.....
