SUMMARY
- The EU has identified WhatsApp as a gatekeeper in the messaging industry and has given it a few months to enable interoperability with other apps.
- The EU’s Digital Markets Act aims to promote fair competition and give consumers more options for alternative services.
- WhatsApp has already begun working on interoperability with other apps, potentially allowing smaller players like Signal to compete more fairly.
Would be awesome if EU demanded that they made at least the message handling part open source.
It doesn’t matter if some part of system is open source. What matters is that there is some nonlibre part.
Well, that’s correct. Apologies.
I don’t know if there’s any precedence anywhere for forcing code to be open sourced, but it’s a nice dream!