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Re:Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf] by nullifidian on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @07:17AM (#26723216)
It stifles innovation and rewards big business. Why risk developing something if it will be taken from you? A winner-take-all kind of situation. It leaves little room for the platform's authors to generate revenue other then hiring themselves to said big business, and probably at depressed rates.
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Re:Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf] by skinkestek on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @08:42AM (#26723978)
Because you can always outcompete them?

No, it is not a first class ticket to unicorn valuation, but it is trivially easy to differentiate

- from Google by just providing any kind of customer service to all paying customers

- from AWS and GCP just by allowing on premise solutions

- from Facebook by not reliably failing to protect and/or actively exploit your customers all the time

- etc

Need proof? See Slack, WhatsApp and Instagram (before the acquisition), Basecamp etc etc.

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