Indeed they were open source proponents for a long time (and are far from that now), but the failure of their messaging platforms matches the failure of many, m

Indeed they were open source proponents for a long time (and are far from that now), but the failure of their messaging platforms matches the failure of many, many of their other product (projects). They just do some periodic financial analysis and decide to cull the projects they don't see a big future in. True though that open standards are slower and harder to work with because they involve too many people and too much discussion. Apple is almost exactly the opposite example of this, and clearly their approach works quite well most of the time.