It's the only thing that can. Interoperability should be written into law and stuff like remote attestation should banned. Otherwise there will be no such thing as "open" anything. There is no freedom if they refuse to interoperate with you for daring to exercise it.
Indeed, you have to go legal about this (what I am exactly doing, but my lawyer gave birth then it takes some time).
"Interop" alone does not mean that much anything: what Big Tech is scared of, small software, simple protocols, able to do a good enough job, which it is "easy" and "cheap" to develop an alternative of.
For instance, IRC(TLS) bridges, noscript/basic (x)html (HTML forms can do wonders). EU started to emit personal user certificates for auto authentication, and let me tell you: it is HORRIBLE to install such certificate in Big Tech browsers... and I am suspicious about the certificate file format (never really got into it).
But don't fool yourself, Big Tech "knows" and will fight it, then expect the worse: they will shadow-hire teams of hackers to destroy your alternative. The part of having up and properly running "juicy" public internet servers up is 50% of the job... and it gets worse if you have a payment processor.
> Indeed, you have to go legal about this (what I am exactly doing
That's extremely interesting. Can you tell us more?
> "Interop" alone does not mean that much anything
True.
By "interoperability" I mean being able to have any client connect to any server without discrimination. They should not know or care what software I'm running, only that it speaks the same network protocol. Remote attestation violates this by enumerating approved clients and cryptographically vefifying them.
"Adversarial interoperability" is an even more interesting concept.
> But don't fool yourself, Big Tech "knows" and will fight it, then expect the worse: they will shadow-hire teams of hackers to destroy your alternative.
I don't expect it to be easy. We're talking about amoral trillion dollar corporations who only work for their bottom lines. I wouldn't be surprised if they killed people over stuff like this. Coca-Cola did.
Last time I got warnings of "intended violence" was with some vmware zealot.
Shadow-hiring teams of hacker to give hell to Big Tech alternatives is one thing, contract killing/violence is another.
But since we are talking about massively rich trash(or severely mistaken) human beings, it is important to stay alert. They literaly can buy anything they want to.
