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thecrazyone on July 20, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Farewell, Google Maps

A good competitor can make a drop in replacement possible by aligning their api with that of google's

ddalex on July 20, 2018 [–]

look how good it went for Microsoft's competitors trying to build a Win32-compatible OS....

namibj on July 20, 2018 | | [–]

Look what Linus and Stallman made to replace UNIX.

Digit-Al on July 20, 2018 | | [–]

What? Like WINE you mean? ;-)

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