The days of major distributed protocols like email is pretty much over. Once research orgs were replaced by corporations as the main force of Innovation, everyt

The days of major distributed protocols like email is pretty much over. Once research orgs were replaced by corporations as the main force of Innovation, everything became a race to establish the next monopoly. If email was invented by, say, Google today it would be available through half a dozen of mediocre products with little to no industry support.