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It stifles innovation and rewards big business. Why risk developing something if it will be taken from you? A winner-take-all kind of situation. It leaves littl
by nullifidian 6y ago
It stifles innovation and rewards big business. Why risk developing something if it will be taken from you? A winner-take-all kind of situation. It leaves little room for the platform's authors to generate revenue other then hiring themselves to said big business, and probably at depressed rates.
- skinkestek 6y agoBecause you can always outcompete them? No, it is not a first class ticket to unicorn valuation, but it is trivially easy to differentiate - from Google by just providing any kind of customer service to all paying customers - from AWS and GCP just by allowing on premise solutions - from Facebook by not reliably failing to protect and/or actively exploit your customers all the time - etc Need proof? See Slack, WhatsApp and Instagram (before the acquisition), Basecamp etc etc.