Data portability: are the big guys just pretending?
Now that everyone is joining the Data Portability initiative (including linked-in, flickr), Wired questions how committed to portability these companies truly are given the past claims of openness without actual follow through.
This is different from Microsoft pretending to support Linux. This is something that directly affects end-users and, in my view, within 5 years, a critical mass of them will be saavy enough to ask for it, to expect it.
So I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Ultimately, I will chose to primarily do most of my online business thru Google or Linked-in not because the switching costs are too high, but because they are the best for me. Rational and efficient. Let's hope those guys are sincere and most importantly that we start seeing some concrete applications soon.
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