This is quite off-base, unfortunately. Don't read it as fact, but as a vibe, and take note it's an infohazard if you have any managerial responsibility in a tech company.

Among many, many, things, the EU was not beat back on messaging interoperability -- in fact, it's due to announce the draft list next week.

And it wasn't messaging interoperability -- its a set of requirements for gatekeeper services with over 45 million users.

I didn't expect this from Ben, but when I think back, I haven't seen much work from him over the last 5 years. Did he drop out of industry?