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]
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    51 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!

    • asudox
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      31 year ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

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

        • asudox
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          11 year ago

          Well, that’s correct. Apologies.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 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!