The ethos of interoperability in software development arose from a survival calculation rather than altruism: developers recognized that software which could not work across platforms would not survive.
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In turn, the realization in the software development community that interoperability of software means survivability, gave rise to an ethos of interoperability.
Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808859
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software development community, especially in its early period
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