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So much of the current tech companies derive at least part of their profits out of restricted interoperability. A legal precedent allowing adversarial interoperability would be the death of any "engagement"-based business model, aka most of tech nowadays. Alternatively clients would pop up left and right that will strip out all the "engagement" nonsense (as well as the spyware/malware), and those will no longer be stoppable by legal trolling.

Such a move would completely kill off VC's (already sick) golden goose. They would lose more than what they'd win.



In some countries it's already legal to reverse engineer software for the purpose of interoperability.




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