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Oh God, that's horrifying. I'm also surprised it hasn't happened... although technically it has, with all websites saying "by registering you agree to this unbe
by TheBozzCL 3y ago
Oh God, that's horrifying. I'm also surprised it hasn't happened... although technically it has, with all websites saying "by registering you agree to this unbearably long and confusing terms of usage document that we know you're not going to read".
- echelon 3y ago> Oh God, that's horrifying. The legal terms would be for corporations, developers, and implementers, not end users. We might have had open, interoperable chat today had we done something like this to protect our protocols. If email and HTTP had been developed much later (ie. in the 2000s), we'd probably have unilateral corporate control of those protocols too. And by god, Google is certainly trying.