Could lead to turtles all the in..
infinite recursion to the centre...
Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features
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Re: Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features
#32"We've run out of ideas for how to improve Facebook. Maybe we should let developers come up with some ideas again so we can copy them."
"Good composers borrow, great composers steal"
And then when your stealing is successful enough you have the laws changed so no one can do the same as you did.
Re: Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features
#33Facebook is acting scared.
Re: Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features
#34"We've run out of ideas for how to improve Facebook. Maybe we should let developers come up with some ideas again so we can copy them."
Exactly what I thought. "... and then, once we are satisfied for a couple more years, we can put the same policy back into place"
Speaking of platforms: In the Bernstein timeline someone went to Stockholm and convinced Notch that a cross between Steam and Kiva kicks off the next cultural revolution and all we need is a little “mancala money”
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#35"We've run out of ideas for how to improve Facebook. Maybe we should let developers come up with some ideas again so we can copy them."
"Good composers borrow, great composers steal"
FB doesn't imitate and improve, it steals and spoils.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/
> great poets imitate and improve, whereas small ones steal and spoil
> Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.
> If you see a great master, you will always find that he used what was good in his predecessors, and that it was this which made him great.
Re: Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features
#36That's it. I'm leaving anything related to facebook. I mean a company should have minimum level of ethics. This is a absolute trash of a company.
So you didn't leave when they HAD the policy banning competitors, but decide to leave when the remove the ban?
Sounds rational to me. To GP's point, at least the former policy was somewhat honest. By announcing this "reversal" it's like a lie that involves time travel. That is, they just lied again, and will prove it so at some future point.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
It already exists, and is made by FB. It is called Local, and I’ve been using it exclusively for almost 2 years so far. Haven’t had the actual FB app installed on my phones in forever, as Local+Messenger combo satisfies all my FB-related needs.
Local doesn't work for managing your groups I think, it is restricted to events isn't it ?
Ya Local is just events. But it is quite a good app.
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#38This is great timing.
My new startup, EvilCorp is just about to launch a new social platform where we give your private data directly to Russians trying to subvert our Democracy.
Now we can just launch directly on Facebook since they no longer ban us from copying this core feature.
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#39Great, if anyone has any spare cycles - please rip out Events from Facebook into another app so I don't have to open Facebook anymore.
Re: Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features
#40Good idea, they'll get even more data on emerging competitors than they used to get from their traffic-sniffing VPN app before Apple pulled it from the App Store a few months ago: https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/12/facebook-starts-pushing-it...
a Facebook VPN? what an oxymoron. how is this not a bigger story/discussion?