Although I agree with a lot of it, I also think he's off the mark on a lot of it. It's a long article, so I'll just pick a few. "And if you worry, as some do,

Although I agree with a lot of it, I also think he's off the mark on a lot of it. It's a long article, so I'll just pick a few. "And if you worry, as some do, that the alternative to no W3C is chaos, or if you worry that the alternative is a web ruled by Google and Microsoft and Apple—I don’t think so." Did he completely miss the browser wars? Or the MPEG-LA controversies? This is not just a fear, this is exactly what will happen. "I think the alternative is a web that’s organized entirely as a set of open-source software projects. And we didn't have that choice 15–20 years ago, at the beginning of the web. Because open source hadn't quite arrived as a way of doing things." Open Source arrived well before the web. Maybe it took the web to arrive for him to notice it. But so much amazing work pre-dates the web. As for open-source creating standards... well that's some kind of joke. Compare the look of Linux desktop versus OSX. In Linux, applications can look radically different, all on the same platform. Your desktop ends up looking like a hodgepodge of different designs. Each app looks and operates completely differently. "Linux, Apache, Perl, Python, WordPress—all of these technologies have succeeded without a W3C-style supervising authority." This is just not true. Linux, Apache, Perl and Python all have central authorities. And have benefited from combining this with a more randomised set of contributions. I'm not sure about WordPress.