[netizen-936824]

I'm all for reimagining the email system, but considering how wide spread email is right now I think the replacement might need to be at least partially compatible to allow interoperation during transition

[Finnucane]

The tech industry’s ‘reenvisioning’ of a free/cheap older, but universal, standard is usually to replace it with something expensive, proprietary, and limited in scope.

[netizen-936824]

My hope is that it would be an open and free standard instead of some of the usual bullshit vendor lock in

[teddyh]

When has that ever happened?

[netizen-936824]

That's an extremely broad question. Are you asking specifically about email replacements, communication standards, or just proprietary software in general?

[teddyh]

When has ever a “tech industry’s ‘reenvisioning’ of a free/cheap older, but universal, standard” resulted in “an open and free standard” and not “the usual bullshit vendor lock in”?

[netizen-936824]

Never that I can think of, which is why I stated my hope that it wouldn't be like that. But maybe that just means we can't necessarily depend on a profit motivated corporation to do the 'reenvisioning'

[hiptobecubic]

Basically anything? When was the last time something like email happened? And it wasn't a giant tech company that created that either.

Maybe something like Webrtc?