Cory Doctorow

People love cussing.

But it's the combination of the technical critique and the minor license to vulgarity that was like the magic peanut butter and chocolate here that if it were just the vulgarity, people would have just been using it for all the interim.

Oh, so like we... So there's this idea that's very critical to ancientification called adversarial interoperability.

And this is a technical term and no one...

understands what it means unless you're already someone who understands what it means.

And so we came up with this thing called competitive compatibility or COMCOM, which we thought would be fun to say no one liked it.

In the end, I didn't like it.

But adversarial interoperability, it's like it's super important.

It's when you take a thing that the manufacturer has designed in a way that doesn't suit you,

I probably in a way that like harms you with the manufacturer's benefit, like say a printer that can only take ink from the manufacturer and you modify it.

Right.

So that's making it so that it can use other people's ink.

And so making it use other people's ink, that's interoperability doing so against the wishes, the manufacturer it's adversarial.

And like the,

It's a kind of a bedrock that if you own a thing, you should decide how it works, even if that upsets the shareholders of the company that made it.

They're so emotionally fragile that they can't bear to think that the people who buy their products will use them in ways that benefit them at the expense of the shareholders.

Then maybe they're in the wrong line of business because it is yours and you should have the final say over it.

It's dis-enshitification, enshitification, enshitificatory, you know, enshitigenic, dis-enshitificatory, and so on and so on.

So enshitification has kind of got...

three parts, right?