[sliverstorm]

Has no one yet tried forking AMP and simply removing all the Google? Call it OpAMP. You might not get into the carousel right off the bat, but if you get the ball rolling you'd have actual leverage instead of writing open letters on the internet.

[manigandham]

Because it's much less work to just make fast pages using the HTML we already have. The problem is that fast isn't what google wants, they want their special HTML fork called AMP.