#competitivecompatibility — Public Fediverse posts
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! (15 Oct 2025)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/freedom-of-movement/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! (15 Oct 2025)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/freedom-of-movement/
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"Adversarial interop" is a *mouthful*, so at @eff, we coined the term #CompetitiveCompatibility, or #comcom, which is a lot easier to say and to spell.
Scratch any tech success and you'll find a comcom story. After all, when a company turns its screws on its users, it's good business to offer an aftermarket mod that loosens them again.
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"- motivated reasoning ripples through all of Silicon Valley's top brass, producing what Anil Dash calls "VC QAnon," the collection of conspiratorial, debunked and absurd beliefs embraced by powerful people who hold the digital lives of billions of us in their quivering grasp..."
https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/02/self-incrimination/#wei-bai-bai
#tech #business #CoryDoctorow #privacy #DRM #AdversarialInteroperability #CompetitiveCompatibility #ComCom @pluralistic
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I really liked Dubal's legal reasoning and argument, and to it I would add a call to reinvigorate countertwiddling: reforming laws that get in the way of workers who want to reverse-engineer, spoof, and control the apps that currently control *them*. #AdversarialInteroperability (AKA #CompetitiveCompatibility or #ComCom) is key tool for building worker power in an era of digital Taylorism:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability
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III. Pro-twiddling laws for users: Interoperability (both mandatory and adversarial - AKA #CompetitiveCompatibility or #ComCom):
https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/05/time-for-some-game-theory/#massholes
Monopolists and their handmaidens - witting and unwitting - want you to believe that their dominance is inevitable (shades of #Thatcher's "#ThereIsNoAlternative"), because the great forces of history, the technical characteristics of digital technology, and the sorcerous mind-control of dopamine-hackers.
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When Netflix was getting started, it could freely #interoperate with the #DVDs that the studios had put on the market. It could repurpose those DVDs in ways that the studios strenuously objected to. In other words, Netfix used #AdversarialInteroperability (AKA #CompetitiveCompatibility or #ComCom) to launch its business:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability
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When Netflix was getting started, it could freely #interoperate with the #DVDs that the studios had put on the market. It could repurpose those DVDs in ways that the studios strenuously objected to. In other words, Netfix used #AdversarialInteroperability (AKA #CompetitiveCompatibility or #ComCom) to launch its business:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability
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When Netflix was getting started, it could freely #interoperate with the #DVDs that the studios had put on the market. It could repurpose those DVDs in ways that the studios strenuously objected to. In other words, Netfix used #AdversarialInteroperability (AKA #CompetitiveCompatibility or #ComCom) to launch its business:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability
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When Netflix was getting started, it could freely #interoperate with the #DVDs that the studios had put on the market. It could repurpose those DVDs in ways that the studios strenuously objected to. In other words, Netfix used #AdversarialInteroperability (AKA #CompetitiveCompatibility or #ComCom) to launch its business:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability
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When Netflix was getting started, it could freely #interoperate with the #DVDs that the studios had put on the market. It could repurpose those DVDs in ways that the studios strenuously objected to. In other words, Netfix used #AdversarialInteroperability (AKA #CompetitiveCompatibility or #ComCom) to launch its business:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability
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kittens.eff.org/deeplinks/2020…
This looks like a great conversation with @pluralistic and others on the topic.
They mention that #AdversialInteroperability is now #CompetitiveCompatibility .
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