>SMTP and HTTP were the reason that the walls of AOL, MSN, Compuserve and other walled gardens fell. This was hard fought because companies like microsoft cont

>SMTP and HTTP were the reason that the walls of AOL, MSN, Compuserve and other walled gardens fell. This was hard fought because companies like microsoft controlled the major SMTP and HTTP clients, so they controlled the de-facto standard. Most people today are running hardware with closed-source software and locked bootloaders so the idea that we can just change our minds and have a competitive environment tomorrow is false to boot. It would take a major cultural shift to change.