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Re:VRML by ddingus on Sunday April 17, 2022 @12:51PM (#31062221)
The common piece I see being talked around here is ownership. I bet that, more than anything else, is what drives the pushback. I was there too. People do not want open 3D, because "land grab", next really big, big thing.

"If only WWW would have charged to make a link...."

Re:VRML by ok123456 on Sunday April 17, 2022 @02:45PM (#31063167)
People have been floating the idea of 'micro-transactions' since the first days of the commercial world-wide-web. People just don't want to do it. There's a reason why average users made the choice to use the wider internet, instead of things like Minitel.
Re:VRML by ddingus on Sunday April 17, 2022 @05:25PM (#31064645)
Totally!

But that won't stop developers and founders from doing gatekeeping management math.