Comment by king_geedorah
1 month ago
The web is open and is famously very competitive. We have three whole browser engines and only two of them are implemented by for-profit corporations whose valuations have 13 digits. I mean other ones exist, but the average modern developer claims it's your fault when something doesn't work because you use firefox or safari and also demands the browser rewrap all the capabilities the operating system already provides for you because they can't be assed to do the work of meeting users where they are.
In a world with over 3 billion people we have 'three whole browser engines'.
I don't want to be mean, but this isn't a great counterpoint.
I'm not sure what the number of people in the world has to do with whether an open standard does or doesn't promote innovation. The user asked for a case where an open standard didn't do that and I provided one. Whether you think it's a great counterpoint is entirely irrelevant to me.
But browser engines are entirely functional based on open standards!!!!!
This is the core proposition!
The benefit of open standards here, is to the consumers of these standards .. not the engines.
Open standards allow the consumers (websites / apps) to be able to benefit.
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