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		tsunamifury on July 28, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NPR One Because almost anyone who eventually "owns the platform", eventually squeezes the content producers out of all the profit. Why would I cooperate with a central platform, when once its achieves market dominance, it uses that position to dictate my profit margins?

JetSpiegel on July 28, 2014 [–]

If it's a standard nobody "owns" the plaform.

Nobody "owns" RSS for example.

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