The author seems to be strongly biased and is missing some important pieces of information. Mainly: QUIC is an open protocol, the spec and chromiums implementa

The author seems to be strongly biased and is missing some important pieces of information. Mainly: QUIC is an open protocol, the spec and chromiums implementation are public. The fact that work on an IETF RFC is currently being performed attests to that. As the author points out, QUIC has been announced in 2013. That's plenty of time for Google's competitors to use QUIC in their own infrastructure. There are also some misleading pieces of information in the article: Competitors are bound to using TCP requests that require extra round trips That's not true, competitors can use QUIC or 0-RTT features in TLS 1.3.