And then some other evil corporation buys story graph and we are back to square one, instead of building these proprietary integrations why don’t companies just build open systems and people can setup the integrations on their own. If you read ebooks on windows Microsoft doesn’t have to build a direct integration with some book tracking website, because a computer isn’t a locked down hardware device, it’s a open platform that gives the user the freedom to do whatever they want. In 2026 most devices should be running open platforms.
And then some other evil corporation buys story graph and we are back to square one, instead of building these proprietary integrations why don’t companies just build open systems and people can setup the integrations on their own. If you read ebooks on windows Microsoft doesn’t have to build a direct integration with some book tracking website, because a computer isn’t a locked down hardware device, it’s a open platform that gives the user the freedom to do whatever they want. In 2026 most devices should be running open platforms.
Kobos are already owned by a giant megacorp, but because it’s Japanese most of the west hasn’t heard of it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakuten
Kobos are just running Linux, albeit somewhat stripped down. You can run open source software on them just fine.
“why don’t companies” Profitable open source making corps exist):
Red hat anyone?