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open source software is not enough anymore. The world needs lean and simple, but able to do a good enough job, open source software, and that include the SDKs
by sylware 5y ago
open source software is not enough anymore.
The world needs lean and simple, but able to do a good enough job, open source software, and that include the SDKs with their computer languages (excluding de-facto c++/java/c#/etc with their compilers).
Toxic companies don't need a copy-left licence to do vendor-lockin with open source software: they just need to write non-pertinent, grotesquely and absurdely complex and massive open source software which excluds all alternatives which would require much less developement resources.
This is exactly what's happening with google(blink/geeko) and apple(webkit) based browsers. Bonus: it mecanically creates a huge amount of planned obsolescence, brain-washed web devs and scammers are in their paradise.
There is no other way than technical regulation to protect the people against this.
- aaa_aaa 5y agoSoftware is hard. Deal with it. Technical regulations, if you mean government regulations on all facets of the software industry, will bring much more problems than it is supposed to fix.
- sylware 5y agoExcept if you choose simple and lean software/protocols. And those won't be immutable: what's immutable would be their simplicity not their specs.