Comment by Mike Masnick

I know some people have compared your concept of "adversarial interoperability" with my concept of "protocols, not platforms," and I think that they come from similar places and are looking at similar goals, but there’s one element of the adversarial interoperability concept that I like that is not included in my protocols approach: which is that it doesn’t require convincing the big companies to go along. With my Protocols paper, I recognized that sooner or later the various other pressures might force the big social networks to say "hey, this approach gets rid of a bunch of headaches, and even if it means giving up control, it’s doing so in a way that is worth it, because that control we give up takes away a bunch of costly problems." [...] However, it’s still waiting for them to have an epiphany. The adversarial interop approach gets around that, and more or less forces the incumbent to open up. And that’s… compelling.