The problems with this are overcoming the startup inertia and coming to a common agreement about how to implement it. In my view, the latter is by far the most

The problems with this are overcoming the startup inertia and coming to a common agreement about how to implement it. In my view, the latter is by far the most difficult and failing to come up with a common objective or view is likely to either scuttle the project or render it ineffective or inefficient. Let me give you a real world example: Linux. We've so many distros that it's hard for anyone of them to get real traction. As we've seen for decades, Linux has never managed to take on Windows on the desktop for the reason that there are so many disparate views about how tackle the problem. Both businesses and ordinary users want certainty not constant variation. We see the same problem in other areas of the net, for instance copyright reform. The only way to tackle that is on a worldwide basis - as the forces against it are aldo already very well organized on a worldwide basis and have been so for some 140 years (since the original Berne Convention). I've often thought that we need a worldwide union of computer users to tackle these issues and take on Big Tech, etc. but how does one start something as big and significant as this let alone hold it altogether for any length of time? I wish I knew.