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And how many PCI-E cards do you think this comment took to reach my screen?

so your argument against consortiums (bluetooth) is that they work?… but at a higher cost (lengthy specs)?

the historic alternative is a slightly lower cost (most of BT complexity is of the plumbing type, not the PhD type) and much more significant market risks (due to incompatibilities: smaller addressable market and less ability to pivot from one market to a different one).

from the engineer PoV, i agree with you: i’d love for these specifications to be simplified. from the business PoV, i don’t think it actually matters that much.

A consortium of nations interested in maintaining access to reliable compute and innovation might be interesting. As in not bought out explicitly but some kind of direct and regular investment