This article has some good points, but I don't agree with it's treatment of the SPDY->HTTP/2 and QUIC->HTTP/3 process. In both cases, Google engineers identifie

This article has some good points, but I don't agree with it's treatment of the SPDY->HTTP/2 and QUIC->HTTP/3 process. In both cases, Google engineers identified a real problem, made a prototype solution, encouraged others to implement it, and ultimately participated as core members of standardizing what is in some sense a "v2" protocol built on the lessons of their initial experiments. The article presents the working group as fighting to de-Googlify the protocols, but the reality seems to be that Google was working closely as members of that committee, and the new versions were intended to be better for everyone. The monopolistic action would be to design a new protocol then keep it proprietary and secret so your competition can't have services or browsers that are as fast. That's not what happened.