> Successful long-lived open systems owe their success to building decades-long micro-communities around extensions/plugins, also known as a marketplace. I’ve r

> Successful long-lived open systems owe their success to building decades-long micro-communities around extensions/plugins, also known as a marketplace. I’ve ranted about Platforms before, and how important they are, and how Google has never once in their entire corporate history ever really understood what goes into making a successful open Platform, not counting Android or Chrome. That one statement deserves its own essay in the context of Chrome and Firefox. It'll be interesting for anyone around in 30 years to look back and see how both those browsers are doing against the Emacs web browsers just to score the thinking.