Re:50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust i...
by shkkmo on Monday September 09, 2019 @07:58PM
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"Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" is a pretty clearly anti-competitive strategy.
The best way to counteract that strategy is a more complicated topic.
You are correct that creating bad rules around the removal of open protocols could end up dis-incentivizing usage of open protocols, but that doesn't mean there aren't some good rules that won't (I don't claim to know what they would be).
I think it makes sense that we create anti-trust or consumer protection laws that cover the circumstances under which services with high market-shares can remove support for open protocols.
I even see a potential argument to require services with sufficiently high market-share to implement open protocols.
The best way to counteract that strategy is a more complicated topic.
You are correct that creating bad rules around the removal of open protocols could end up dis-incentivizing usage of open protocols, but that doesn't mean there aren't some good rules that won't (I don't claim to know what they would be).
I think it makes sense that we create anti-trust or consumer protection laws that cover the circumstances under which services with high market-shares can remove support for open protocols.
I even see a potential argument to require services with sufficiently high market-share to implement open protocols.