SUMMARY

  • The EU has identified WhatsApp as a gatekeeper in the messaging industry and has given it a few months to enable interoperability with other apps.
  • The EU’s Digital Markets Act aims to promote fair competition and give consumers more options for alternative services.
  • WhatsApp has already begun working on interoperability with other apps, potentially allowing smaller players like Signal to compete more fairly.
    • @[email protected]English
      5•1 year ago

      And more critically one is open source so you can verify that it does what they say it does and the other one does not!

      • asudoxEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        Would be awesome if EU demanded that they made at least the message handling part open source.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•1 year ago

          It doesn’t matter if some part of system is open source. What matters is that there is some nonlibre part.

          • asudoxEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            Well, that’s correct. Apologies.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•1 year ago

          I don’t know if there’s any precedence anywhere for forcing code to be open sourced, but it’s a nice dream!