> Anyone who even thinks about extensions has the fury of the mailing list wrought upon them as soon as they propose them. If a central entity decided they cou

> Anyone who even thinks about extensions has the fury of the mailing list wrought upon them as soon as they propose them. If a central entity decided they could capture a new market by shipping “Gemini++: The One With DRM So You Can Watch Netflix”, I’m not sure why the “fury of the mailing list” would be a concern for them. Given that users pick their clients, the folks pushing for fewer features would end up splitting the userbase between “people who agreed with them” and “people who didn’t”. For an example of how this goes if a medium gets popular, the best example may in fact be HTTP/HTML/etc.