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by hedgedoops2 54 days ago
Ding ding ding

This is one of the things a comprehensive interoperability mandate could enable.

Require monopolistic companies that have a frontend/backend architecture to publish the interface docs and to not obstruct third party commercial alt backends/frontends.

Its a bit like carving up monopolistic firms along the joints (interfaces) defined by the software architecture, and team structure. Just less extreme; the firm isnt actually split, it's just required to allow "fair competition by third party architecture components"

This would really improve googles software, we might get e2ee google keep or gmail with pgp.

(I have not worked out the details of this, it might not be feasible)