On: Zenefits ordered to stop offering free insurance s...

[tombone12]

Offering something for free based solely on big capital sound like the definition of dumping, so anti-dumping laws is probably right.

[stale2002 → tombone12]

Their business model doesn't rely on charging for HR software. Their HR software is free and will continue to be free forever. This is just a straight up win for consumers.

Is Facebook, or Hacker News, or reddit "price dumping" its free software?

[gnaritas → stale2002]

Those big sites sell users to advertisers, the users of said free software are their product, not their customer. This site is just a hobby project.

[stale2002 → gnaritas]

The same can be said about the Zenefits users. They don't care about the 5 dollars per user that they can make in revenue. They care about the x000 dollars in insurance dollars that they make off of them.

The customer is the insurance companies, not the users. The users are the product, so of course they give it away for free.

[pbreit → tombone12]

But the marginal cost of the service is near zero. I don't really understand what the rule is. What service must be charged for?