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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:39AM (#26551186)
We have plenty of other successful interoperable standards. HEVC. Wifi. Even Javascript. Sure, perhaps bureaucracy has caused them to move more slowly than they could, but on the whole these forums produce good technologies.

I'd offer an alternative explanation for why we haven't seen interoperable communication software—because proprietary systems make more money.

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by SilverRed on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:19AM (#26551671)
Wifi, HEVC, and to some extent JS have a single owner or group which is able to make authoritative decisions which improves things.

Its easy for the MPEG group to say, this is our new standard. Thats what it is, not debate. But imagine trying to come out with Email 2 and getting that to work on every email server and client.

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