Sometimes you have to break backwards compatibility to move forward and get better technology, and as painful as it is, and as controversial as it is, switching

Sometimes you have to break backwards compatibility to move forward and get better technology, and as painful as it is, and as controversial as it is, switching to a new standard is often the right thing to do. That said, if you're breaking backwards compatibility to move to _proprietary_ technology, you are not working to move us to a new standard. You're breaking from the old standard to create a balkanized set of non-standard technology. Doesn't matter if it's technically superior--if you're not letting people use it for free, you're intentionally creating a worse ecosystem at the expense of consumers and every other vendor.