> RSS is not a protocol I don't agree with this, but I can see reasonable arguments on either side of the argument. > vendors are building completely open sou

> RSS is not a protocol I don't agree with this, but I can see reasonable arguments on either side of the argument. > vendors are building completely open source tools [like] React & Angular.js It's good that folks are open-sourcing their GUI toolkits. The problem isn't the lack of open-source GUI toolkits. The problem is the lack of interoperability between various Bigcos' services due to the lack of open protocols. Sure, you can reverse engineer the protos, but protocol design and BigCo cantankerousness has come a long way since OSCAR. > Are you suggesting that HTTP is transport layer? Because it's not It totally is. It's the Universal Firewall Bypass transport layer. (There are ways to categorize sections of the networking stack that aren't the OSI seven-layer model. :) )