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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • This is why capitalism requires aggressive regulation. Corporations will always choose walled gardens and proprietary protocols. There can never be any guarantee that any org — whether FOSS or for-profit — won’t enshittify a product in even moderate timescales; there are a hundred reasons why.

    Therefore, they should never be given that option. If you build a product, you either build everything to be interoperable with an open source, lossless spec, or you don’t get to waste humanities finite resources with your narcissism. If you can’t compete on a level playing field — without holding users ransom and creating artificial barriers to their attrition — then you don’t deserve to compete at all. If you stop supporting/updating hardware, you open source all code required for the anyone else to take over, for the entire feature-set of that product. If you fail to meet the very basic requirement of “don’t be a fuckwit”, your company gets seized and your source code/protocols/patents become public property (FOSS).

    This will never happen though, because we live in capitalist plutocracies masquerading as democracy… Sure, you can vote for whoever you want, but 90% of the names on any ballot are a curated, pre-vetted, pre-financed, list of corporate whores.