Doctorow: Legal frameworks create 'kill zones' protecting Big Tech monopolies
Cory Doctorow · Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator · Nov 27, 2019 · at 5:45
Author and activist Cory Doctorow discusses how legal tools like software patents and anti-hacking laws shield tech incumbents from startup competition and interoperability.
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“And in the years since we have created these legal tools that allow firms not just to dominate, but to maintain their dominance, not by making better products, but by establishing a kill zone around their products where it becomes so legally fraught to make compatible products that nobody even tries.”
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