Because Google scrapes other site's data to build its AI market dominance in Gemini. The promise of web 2.0 was APIs, Google aims to cement its position in web 4.0 while suing others for doing what it does on a mass scale.
Adversarial Interoperability is Digital Human Right. Either companies can provide it reasonably or the people will assert their rights through other means.
Actually it's all the slaves of Israel that are doing this in unison. Who needs the EU or BRICS when Zionist governments need to coordinate the mass bonfire of citizens rights and privacy to protect Israel's right to commit a holocaust of children in peace and quiet.
There should be P.E Firms run by OSS devs concentrating in being the succession and exit plan for OSS founders while charging big tech cos ($1bn+) for support.
Might sound a bit evil at first but it is the way to bolster the whole xkcd issue.
Or we could shame companies into action by refusing to use and pay to companies who use FOSS (all of them) but don't contribute back (most of them). Lastly, don't contribute to their FOSS projects, regardless of how nice they might look, if they're not contributing to the ecosystem overall.
reply