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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 16:41:48 JST Aral Balkan

   Remember “Open APIs?” How Tim O’Reilly told us they were how we would build the “open web” in “Web 2.0?”

   Turns out an Open API is open in the sense that a gate owned by someone else is open. In that it can just as easily be closed and locked at their whim.

   #open #APIs #openAPIs #web2 #openWeb #SiliconValley #openWashing #timOReilly #freedom

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 18:35:57 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃

     @mdhughes Tim’s own Safari Books Online repeatedly implemented “DRM”* to thwart the lovely e-book reader app I was making back in the day.

     * In JavaScript no less, so it was a rather funny game of cat and mouse for a while, until it just wasn’t. So I did what anyone would do: released a separate, pared-down app, entered it in O’Reilly’s own app competition, won, flew to the States and had dinner with him on his dime and told him to his face how hypocritical it all was. It was cathartic.

   • Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃 (mdhughes@appdot.net)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 18:35:58 JST Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃

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     @aral Tim just wanted to sell conference passes! It's not his fault (mostly) that assholes put price-tags on API access even tho it weakens the Network Effect.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 18:37:01 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Christian Kruse

     @cjk Yeah, that was what prompted my post ;)

   • Christian Kruse (cjk@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 18:37:03 JST Christian Kruse

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     @aral current example of this: Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/