Is MCP a sign of the reopening of the internet?

"I think the pendulum has started to swing the other way"

"I have a tiny hope that we’re actually seeing the end of the walled gardens"

...until the pendulum swings back.

There is no mechanism by which the current shift to more open collaboration is going to persist. It's simply advantageous to everyone right now to throw things around freely, see what sticks, see what others do with it. Then we'll start seeing the killer apps again, they'll put their walls up and the pendulum will swing back.

Enjoy it while it lasts. Perhaps we'll be better prepared for the next Zuck. But I doubt it.