Ian Brown 👨🏻💻<p>I have two hypotheses why the conventional IO/competition economics view of <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/interoperability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interoperability</span></a> understates its benefits, perhaps due to slight technological complexity in understanding its potential:</p><p>1. Fully interoperable tools can be plugged together in all sorts of unexpected combinations. See eg <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unix</span></a> or <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/bridgyfed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bridgyfed</span></a></p><p>2. Interoperability lets a single function (eg auto-translation) be developed once in a single tool, then applied across a range of interoperable services. /1</p>