Adversarial interoperability: breaking a monopoly by creating a compatible product, redirecting the network effect. The specific case: how Samba connected Macs & Linux servers to Windows networks. But legal changes make that sort of thing harder now.

Adversarial interoperability: breaking a monopoly by creating a compatible product, redirecting the network effect. The specific case: how Samba connected Macs & Linux servers to Windows networks. But legal changes make that sort of thing harder now. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/samba-versus-smb-adversarial-interoperability-judo-network-effects

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