[ElevenLathe]

> Easier than bespoke, sure. But a web2 platform custom-built for this purpose would surely be easier than web3. Both to implement and to sell to vendors. No?

Even better, if your goal is to promote competition rather than just make money: publish an open standard that can be implemented by anyone. Might not be much more than a specific set of columns that a CSV has to have to be considered an OpenVendorMagick(tm) inventory endpoint.

[swalsh]

In practice, web3 has proven to be more open and composable than web2. I guess in theory web2 could start coordinating with each other. But it just doesn't seem to happen often. On the other hand web3 companies have shown to be extremely interoperable. Whitnessing this was one of the first things that made me go "there's something here".