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So now you want the government to pass laws that make consumer experience worse?

Maybe that will cause the “Year of Linux on the Desktop” to happen.

Mandating open standards is not the same thing as 'making consumer experience worse'.

So everything that any company designs should go through a committee before it’s introduced and become parts of a standards body?

That is your benevolent interpretation of the post you are answering to? Or is this just your hyperbolic example of the black-and-white fallacy to show how not to conduct a civil discussion?

I know, the point you are trying to make is buried beneath somewhere but it is really hard to make out. All I see is pettiness. So sad.

Sure, why not? Except for some religous allegiance to "free market" (as it hasn't produced disasters aplenty itself) or some knee jerk rection to the notion of a committee?

Ah, I see the new marketing slogan for the FOSS movement is finally ready.

Thinking you know better than customers is a classic.