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I mean, isn't the post you replied to essentially the clean room approach? One person/group does the actual reverse engineering and writes up the spec doc, and

• fennecfoxy 3y ago
  I think that was maybe applicable back in the Gates & Wozniak days but not so sure that approach would be considered "clean" now. It seems kind of ludicrous that one company can't look at another's product and create the same type of thing, just improved. That's how innovation works. It's just that in this case, apart from a handful of differences, the core innovation of threads seems to be that Twitter has been taken over by an egotistical maniac and while Zuck is still a billionaire he seems wholly less concerned with tooting his own horn in public as Elon is. I don't think Elon/Twitter has a leg to stand on, they don't own the concept of a public forum/social media platform, I'm sure that even the shortform that Twitter has enforced since its inception had been done long before.
  • mandeepj 3y ago
    > I'm sure that even the shortform that Twitter has enforced since its inception had been done long before. Twitter's idea came from Text messages https://www.lifewire.com/history-of-twitter-3288854 https://www.lifewire.com/history-of-twitter-3288854