Standards are one thing, monopolies another. I guess as the complexity of our systems grow it will be more and more important to keep the technology minimalist

Standards are one thing, monopolies another. I guess as the complexity of our systems grow it will be more and more important to keep the technology minimalist and easy to change. Hmm what was i gonna say. Think virtual machines for example. There could be several different but still compile to bytecode so you could run all kinds of languages on different VMs and different hardware by making layers. Hmm I will try to get this clearer and post again. But I stand by the first sentence.