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I think the issue is the old rug pull where the terms/price change dramatically after you are hooked, and after they have bought out or undercut the competition

• chii 4y ago
  i think the most important change to legislate that could fix this problem is a freedom to demand api/specs from a company for the purposes of reverse engineering an competing product. This would include the data format that a customer can expect to be able to export off the product they pay for. E.g., any data, file, or model, etc, should be exportable and in a format that is specified well enough for a competing company to offer a migration path away. this right will ensure that there wouldn't be any rugpulls.
  • yourapostasy 4y ago
    That won’t be good enough. These representation models get terrifyingly complex and even genuine good faith implementations between different parties will differ, much less efforts tainted by bad actors. One only need look at web browser engines vis a vis web standards, all out in the open, and the Herculean effort required to get to the current state of differences between browser rendering, to get a sense of the challenge. Such specifications also need to maintain test suites with real data and code and reference code to even start a conversation about effective inter-product data interchange.