Why would anyone downvote this? Would love an explanation. Why not let Apple keep building their wall higher and higher but also let other's emulate and create interoperable alternatives. The best of all worlds.
Because it's divorced from reality. In no world will volunteers maintain parity with a trillion dollar hardware and software company covered by a multitude of patents.
Is this a joke? I was obviously calling back both to PC compatibles and UNIX compatibles. Both open systems have completely dominated the closed systems. It is obvious that Apple is doing everything to prevent this.
Yeah and look at the raging success of Linux on the desktop.
Enduring success at the very least.
Another explanation is that it's too radical of an idea even for HN. I
see no reason a judge in a hypothetical anti-trust case against Apple
couldn't give it a choice between ceasing operations and open sourcing
its whole technology stack.