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by bismuthsalt 2081 days ago
The unimpeachable approach for the software industry is to setup consortiums to define open standards for APIs, file formats and wire protocols, instead of relying on replicating the most popular proprietary ones. In fact there already exist such consortiums, for example https://www.w3.org, tasked with standardizing WWW, or https://www.cncf.io for cloud computing standards.