> it's the only thing that has a serious chance of ending the dominance of proprietary platforms. That has never been the end goal for HTTP or even the WWW. Fu

> it's the only thing that has a serious chance of ending the dominance of proprietary platforms. That has never been the end goal for HTTP or even the WWW. Furthermore, we have proprietary web platforms today: just look at Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc. It's in fact MORE fragmented than the OS market is right now. I mean, think about it: if you were trying to design a portable OS-as-a-service, would you REALLY be using a stateless protocol like HTTP for it? We've done a pretty good job of hacking together ways to maintain state over multiple requests, but the fact of the matter is that it's 100% garbage overhead that wouldn't exist at all if we just used a stateful protocol in the first place!