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Vendors come and go. Standards don't.

Ah, the sweet memories from CORBA, Usenet, Token Ring, Gopher, PHIGS, Taligent....

Stardards are only relevant as long as the industry cares to use them.

I can use all of those today or develop a new implementation if I want.

Sure you can, I doubt anyone would care, though.

I actually developed and deployed an instance of a new GOPHER server recently. I was surprised to see requests in its access logs.