Comment by wruza

That was the goal, not an accident. The length of the standard itself is comparable to medium-sized serious project kloc count.

They driven these numbers up to ensure that no one except them and their leashed pets could repeat it.

And here we are, you can have ten internet-enabled apps with texts, images and videos, basically the same functionality, but you can only copy nine of them.

You can’t even keep up with a simple fork.