There’s not really a better way when you’re a monopoly. That’s the problem.
With QUIC and with webp, there was no period of time where the new protocol/format had to compete against other experimental options to see which would win out.
Because Google put it out, and they control an overwhelming share of clients and servers, they were both a foregone conclusion. Google released it, so now it’s a standard. Other companies can either adopt it or fall behind.
This allows them to stack the deck in favor of their portfolio, even if other options were technically superior.
I mean the alternative is what Microsoft does with xml documents where they participate in the standards committee, release a reference implementation, and then intentionally break it in Office so idiots whine about open tools “not rendering correctly”
Kinda missing the point here.
One company shouldn’t be able to pick winners and losers for file formats or protocols.
Google has done it over and over again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC
Pretty sweet gig, being able to give yourself an 8-year head-start.
They released the gQUIC reference implementation under the BSD-3 licence. What would have been your preferred way?
Google is a monopoly, consequently most of their in-house tech will make waves if they decide to use it.
Or are you suggesting a nefarious purpose, like MS’s EEE?
There’s not really a better way when you’re a monopoly. That’s the problem.
With QUIC and with webp, there was no period of time where the new protocol/format had to compete against other experimental options to see which would win out.
Because Google put it out, and they control an overwhelming share of clients and servers, they were both a foregone conclusion. Google released it, so now it’s a standard. Other companies can either adopt it or fall behind.
This allows them to stack the deck in favor of their portfolio, even if other options were technically superior.
I mean the alternative is what Microsoft does with xml documents where they participate in the standards committee, release a reference implementation, and then intentionally break it in Office so idiots whine about open tools “not rendering correctly”