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Re:Google Talk Is Being Discontinued by jpttsn on Friday March 24, 2017 @05:12PM (#13952255)
World you be happy to put the offenders in prison? Or if they didn't pay fines, to show up and collect?
Re:Google Talk Is Being Discontinued by mooreniemi on Thursday March 30, 2017 @09:38PM (#14000585)
i kinda doubt anyone sees protocol violation as a criminal offense.

it's wild to me how quickly "we should find a market-external pressure source for forcing interoperability given the profit motive seemingly guarantees lack of federation because it relies on competition as its motive force" becomes "we must frogmarch innovators to the death pits"