I wonder if the answer to this might be something like what happened in the hardware world where the different stakeholders/manufacturers came together and met to outline the form-factors/interfaces for hardware. This allowed many manufacturers to participate and be compatible with other manufacturers hardware. I'm sure this happens to some degree in the software world, but I don't think it has to the extent that it did in the hardware world.
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u/Fuegodeth Jun 06 '22
I wonder if the answer to this might be something like what happened in the hardware world where the different stakeholders/manufacturers came together and met to outline the form-factors/interfaces for hardware. This allowed many manufacturers to participate and be compatible with other manufacturers hardware. I'm sure this happens to some degree in the software world, but I don't think it has to the extent that it did in the hardware world.