On: Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard...

[nine_k]

Yes, this is why HTML, CSS, HTTP are all dead as open standards, right?

[zanny → nine_k]

Email is only federated and thus interoperable between operators because to not federate would be to not have email.

Many, many private money grabs were made trying to establish a proprietary replacement to web standards, including ActiveX, Flash, and NaCL.

[paulddraper → nine_k]

It is controlled by an oligarchy of browsers.

Which is converging on a monarchy.

[BlueTemplar → nine_k]

Google's power over those is becoming worrisome...