> waiting for at least two independent implementations before any serious standardization What's the time limit on that wait? Should a vendor wait years to get

> waiting for at least two independent implementations before any serious standardization What's the time limit on that wait? Should a vendor wait years to get a feature through other implementations? Should product development be stuck on other parties (potentially competitors) implement the necessary features required to develop the product? Over time, this would result in a very large number of features limited to "vendor" namespace, how is that, in practice, different from having the features standardized (but largely unimplemented by other vendors)? And how is that better for users? What if the vendor wants to pay someone to get those features quickly into alternate open source implementations, wouldn't HN complain then that the vendor now has direct influence in the other product's development? It seems to me like given a set of requirements as simple as "quickly develop new web products that (may) require new web features" Google just can't win.