The issue then becomes: who is providing these services, and why? Currently most of these services extract value by controlling the UI their users interface with to include advertisements or limit features to reserve them for upsells. If users are free to interact with whatever service they want with whatever client they want then there is no longer space to monetize by forcing a bad user experience. This will collapse the most-used Internet services for mail, search, and messaging.

So I guess what I'm saying is that it sounds great, where do I sign the petition?