This is centralisation from the bottom up! You don’t want this. If everything talks the same protocol, some giant will eventually own the protocol in the same w

This is centralisation from the bottom up! You don’t want this. If everything talks the same protocol, some giant will eventually own the protocol in the same way Google stole the web with Chrome. Can you imagine if Android licensed iMessage instead of building Hangouts? Yes, we’d all be texting on the same protocol, and yes we’d have a choice of clients, but at what cost?