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The platform era is ending. Rather than build new Twitters and Facebooks, we can create a stuff-posting system that works better for everybody. (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah. We've already seen this effect with WordPress and Android and Apache/Nginx. There was a day when I was weird for betting against MS IIS for web hosting, and people were sure the commercial Internet would remain proprietary forever.

(The most generous current estimate of IIS market share for Internet hosting is 3%, and that's probably being extremely generous. A more likely number is under .5%.)

We saw companies try and fail to privatize HTML many times: (ActiveX, Flash, SilverLight, various versions of IE).

Open specifications always win.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Depends on if branding takes lead. There is a reason people use Chrome instead of Chromium. Nginx is a prime example, 99% of people think their server less hosting is some special AWS branded product, and not Kubernetes and Nginx they could run on a VM for a fraction of the cost.