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Diversity is a sign of health in an ecosystem. But, increasing diversity directly isn't really viable. Question is, why is diversity low?

In my opinion, Web, OSes and CPUs suffer from being overly complicated, closed-source ridden, non-modular systems-within-systems. Basicly, the opposite of what the Unix philosophy advocates.

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I agree. They are too complicated. Some more work toward making better one will be helpful.

Protocols and instruction sets etc will need to be not too complicated, in addition to being open source and fully documented.

Diversity is low because of the massive amounts of capital Google has. Both in terms of money and power.

If a Web browser were easier to implement, we would have more than ~3 well maintained engines. In other words, why should Web require massive amounts of capital?

Feature creep. Everyone wants to leave a footprint in the world. Same thing with legislation.

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