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Comment by alanh | Hacker News Reader

Recently I came across the AMP website at https://amp.dev/ (after some years since first seeing it). It’s really remarkable how much Google wants to pretend this is an industry standard and not their own little fiefdom. I don’t see the word Google anywhere, not even on the About page.

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It kind of reminds me of the OOXML thing where Microsoft hijacked the standards process for its own benefit.

OOXML was a standard-after-the-fact, because Microsoft couldn't respond to some Government tenders that required that all data be stored in standardised formats.

So... they "standardised" it.

Hilariously, OOXML as generated by MS Office is not the standard version by default. The standard version has different XML namespaces and even slightly different capabilities. You can choose this format in Save As, but nobody does.

The whole AMP thing is shady. Be sure to read this:

https://wptavern.com/amp-has-irreparably-damaged-publishers-...

The.dev gTLD is Google's; it exists for Google projects to hide their Google relationships.

amp.dev does make a tiny out of context mention at the bottom of the page, that Google runs the AMP CDN.

But overall it's obvious that the AMP Project trying to hide it's Googleyness by being "Open JS Foundation", which itself is a corporate trade group hijacking the word "Open".

Google administers .dev, but it's open. You or I could get a .dev domain and use it for a project that has nothing to do with Google.

TIL what really happened to godoc.org!

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