The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards

This article isn’t compelling at all. Most standards aren’t even “open”, you need to pay thousands of dollars to access most of the ISO standards for instance. It also ignores that companies may be choosing standards as they know interoperability typically increases productivity and adoption, which can be profitable.

For example, you can be cynical and reason that Microsoft created the Language Server Protocol to keep people on VSCode as it expands the languages it can support, reducing people switching to other IDEs for a specific language. The fact that it helps other text editors is just a byproduct.