[jjav]

> It shouldn't just be limited to messaging. An internet where everyone can built a client against Facebook's API, or Youtube or what have you and users get actual choice and control about how they consume those services would be a big leap forward.

Or a wonderful leap backward, in the most positive sense.

In these days of proprietary wall gardens everywhere it might be difficult to remember, but earlier in the Internet that was how things worked. Every protocol was public, documented in RFCs and all implementations were interoperable (barrings bugs/etc, but mostly anyway).