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2023-04-10 UTC
# 22:36
[tantek]
capjamesg, the short answer is that market forces incentivize incompatibility by default. It takes a clever (and often long) game of marketplace/competitor "chess" to reach a dynamic equilibrium where an interoperable open protocol is strong & stable enough (network effects) to defend against huge capital investments to capture open markets for rent-seeking.