On: The New Internet

[teddyh]

It is a problem if a company makes a lot of money ”solving” the problem, but:

• This does not really solve the problem, since a real solution would be to change the internet to make the problem go away

• A company making a lot of money gets to have an enormous influence on what is considered reasonable to standardize on. See for instance Google’s and Microsoft’s influence on things like the W3C. (Or if Tailscale is allowed to define what ”The New Internet” will be.)

[sulandor → teddyh]

seems indeed that microsoft is making lots of money by defending the status quo

[teddyh → sulandor]

All large incumbents defend the status quo, except when advocating for larger barriers to entry for new and smaller competitors.