BREAKING: Xceligent Files Antitrust Suit Against CoStar, Alleges Years Of Anticompetitive Behavior
[{"id": "djjp3ut", "text": "Good for them!", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "djjr5hs", "text": "Xceligent should spend all that lawsuit money on a usable UI. ", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "djk0omp", "text": "Xceligent sucks, but just a touch more than costar. ", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "djkp09i", "text": "Let's hope they both waste so much on these lawsuits that a legitimate tech company can slide in to lead the market.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "djkuh9s", "text": "Nice!!!", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "djodpp1", "text": "Data needs to be open and free if there is ever going to be an efficient market in real estate. Do people want an efficient market that is comparable to buying and selling stocks? Im not sure they do. \n\nEach of these data providers hold their data close to them. They give you access to querying the data only after you agree to pay an exorbitant monthly rate and when you do query the data, limited output is generated to prevent mass exporting of that data.\nI can understand this, as the entire business model working is contigent on having data people do not have access to.\n\nI dont know, prices would be far more efficent and friction costs would be far lower if there was one database to house everything.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "djodrcs", "text": "Also, if you read the legal docs, it seems like Xceligent was straight up web scraping off of costar in a comprehensive and frequent way. Lol, if what costar alleges is true and they have evidence like they say they do, xceligent was straight up negligent.....call them Xnegligent.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]