and yet here we are, decades later, and email, www, irc, ftp, DNS, etc, etc. all have a wide choice of clients and servers, of all shades of FOSS licenses, comm

and yet here we are, decades later, and email, www, irc, ftp, DNS, etc, etc. all have a wide choice of clients and servers, of all shades of FOSS licenses, commercial options, hosted options, etc, etc. IMHO a huge problem with the Internet since the late 90s is that business models have replaced protocol RFCs.