[etaty]

Not products, but platforms.

[dexterdog]

And in the past you could not be de-protocol-ed

[bonesss]

Not by mobs of angry students, but protocol managing entities like Microsoft, Novell, IBM, and others sure could make your interpretation of the protocol invalid. Particularly if you had some competing software out in the wild...

[dexterdog]

You can code around a protocol change. You can't do that with a de-platforming.