I don't agree that it must play out this way. Some things stay open standards/federations once created. In general, any legal system should guarantee that close

I don't agree that it must play out this way. Some things stay open standards/federations once created. In general, any legal system should guarantee that closed systems have limits that hinder their normalization. For example, if I can't do something with a 3rd party (be hired, enter a contest, ??) without doing it via FB, the 3rd party should be creating a liability for themself compared to email, or POTS where my terms with any compatible provider can be stated as a fact and dismissed in legal terms. Having just received a change of TOS from Microsoft that claims to include their "products": One can invest in however much Microsoft Windows compatible infrastructure only to learn one has to stop using Windows completely within a few weeks if one disagrees with any new terms they care to name? Linux could do everything wrong from now on, yet the federation of similar distributions make it the only real option server side where one has investments to protect from future rent seeking by any one "winner".