Comment by lwhi
1 month ago
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.
1 month ago
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.
The presumption that started this thread is that open standards are always good for competition. I think browsers are a good counter example where open standards led to three browser vendors, we have less competition rather than more.
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