Reply #3: If the public chooses my product, I didn't run anyone out of business.

[patcox2]

Now if I used unfair or illegal means to "run" him out of business, that would be different. But you seem to be asking whether a business should hold back to allow the other to succeed as well. The answer is no. That verges on a cartel or an agreement in restraint of trade, an agreement between businesses that should be competing, which allows them to divide the market up between them. Thats illegal.