Things developed by committees often tend to lack the market-driven features of privately-owned products. On the other hand, privately-owned products are just

Things developed by committees often tend to lack the market-driven features of privately-owned products. On the other hand, privately-owned products are just that, and suffer from the usual consequences of closed systems. Would be nice if there was an intersection of the two, somehow (C# sort of comes to mind, as it was privately developed but has open-source implementations). The one I always think back to is DirectX vs OpenGL. DirectX has had historically better driver support, documentation, and ready-to-compile example code (OpenGL has caught up a lot admittedly over the years, due to greater proliferation of OpenGL-driven devices).