Re:Let's welcome Meta, not block them
by echelon on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @06:37PM
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> Oh God, that's horrifying.
The legal terms would be for corporations, developers, and implementers, not end users.
We might have had open, interoperable chat today had we done something like this to protect our protocols.
If email and HTTP had been developed much later (ie. in the 2000s), we'd probably have unilateral corporate control of those protocols too. And by god, Google is certainly trying.
The legal terms would be for corporations, developers, and implementers, not end users.
We might have had open, interoperable chat today had we done something like this to protect our protocols.
If email and HTTP had been developed much later (ie. in the 2000s), we'd probably have unilateral corporate control of those protocols too. And by god, Google is certainly trying.