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But there are consequences. Even if the financial costs are not meaningful to a big company, the backlash created by such actions can have wide ranging implicat
by rezonant 3y ago
But there are consequences. Even if the financial costs are not meaningful to a big company, the backlash created by such actions can have wide ranging implications, from lost sales to loss of the public mindshare, to attracting legislative attention.
- smashah 3y agoWe are in an age of shamelessness and self-interest. There's no story in the world that will get people to stop using services like Whatsapp or Instagram. The only thing stopping these big companies is potentially setting a legal precedent that interop projects are legal. They can potentially win such a case as it stands because the targets for their threats are few and far between. If we as digital humans want to solidify this digital right then we need to have a unified front against threats like this. That means we need to have an OSS union behind which companies and individuals can unify if a precedent setting case ever does come up