LSP took off because it was designed and heavily promoted by one of the most powerful technology corporations on the planet, who already had the ears of tens of

LSP took off because it was designed and heavily promoted by one of the most powerful technology corporations on the planet, who already had the ears of tens of millions of developers. The number of proposed "standards" for solving similar problems over the years that have failed or even been completely ignored is legion. LSP is one of only a handful of software integration standards that have ever found widespread adoption. Meanwhile, there are hundreds if not thousands of integration problems where no standard is in sight. This universal vision where micro-programs process and pass around standardized data is never going to happen, except on platforms that are completely controlled by a single vendor (see Apple).