On 2019-03-21 11:17, Giacomo Tesio wrote: > Most of commercial APIs are crap so we wouldn't lose much.
You care confusing quality with popularity/success. POSIX has its own share of crap interfaces, but they are prevalent. > OTOH Free Software is strong enough to innovate and through a strong > enough copyleft, we might create a new and better stack that keep most > future software in the Commons, spreading knowledge and collaboration, > for the benefit of the whole Humanity. > > So why do you think that this is a "toxic precedent"? Because then you'd never be able to provide a compatible free software alternative to *any* proprietary solution. -- Christian Kastner
