Is the Flickr API a National Treasure? 101
First time accepted submitter somekind writes "Over the past few months Twitter imposed restrictions on the use of its client API, and Facebook shut down the facial recognition API supporting face.com after acquiring the company. Mathew Ingram noted these and other examples (Google starting to charge for high-volume use of Google Maps) as evidence that 'open APIs' published by a single vendor can't be trusted by outside developers. Worried about the possibility that Yahoo! might do the same with Flickr, Dave Winer has just launched a petition to Obama asking the President to declare the Flickr API a National Historic Landmark, thus (by Dave's reckoning) legally protected from arbitrary withdrawal or wholesale changes by its corporate masters."
I can relate. (Score:5, Funny)
My mates and I are lobbying to have the neighborhood Pizza Hut declared a national landmark, so we can always eat there for free.
Re:I can relate. (Score:5, Funny)
Someone should start a petition to have the US Government force Pizza Hut into paying Americans to eat there because paying for that shit is criminal.
Socialism is Good! (Score:1, Funny)
What an awesome idea! Why don't we use the same method to prevent gas prices going up - just declare all oil companies property of the Federal Government!
We can do this with EVERYTHING! Shit!
Free pot for everyone!