Re: [TML] Please stop breaking threads! Colin paddock 23 Apr 2016 18:47 UTC

On Apr 22, 2016, at 3:10 PM, Freelance Traveller <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:
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> Yahoo has made it clear that if something outside their
> ecosystem is broken by something that works within their ecosystem, the
> "correct" response is to abandon the outside ecosystem, because "We can
> do that, and won't have the breakage problem".

AOL was such a good twentieth century idea that every large internet conglomerate wants to replicate it in the twenty first century. It's so much easier to maintain a monopoly if you can make it a pain for users to leave your monopoly-space.