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And, surprisingly, Google has more employees on WICG (the W3C standards incubator) than all other relevant parties added together.
by pygy_ 4y ago
And, surprisingly, Google has more employees on WICG (the W3C standards incubator) than all other relevant parties added together.
- piva00 4y agoInstead of regulatory capture they are going for the standards' committee capture... I'm curious about other cases of corporations taking over standards' committees, anyone else has examples?
- shadowgovt 4y agoMost standards committees are either built from or heavily influenced by the corporate interests that are directly impacted by the standards.
- shadowgovt 4y agoWell, unsurprisingly. The nature of the web ties 100% into everything Google does as a company. It's not just in their vested interest to be involved in that system; it's an existential underpinning to their company, akin to General Motor's interest in rubber standards.
- pygy_ 4y agoThat is also true of Mozilla and Facebook, and probably others...
- phpisthebest 4y agoNot really surprising given that W3c is basically a subsidiary of Google at this point rubber-stamping any change to "standards" that google wants