Capitalism, essentially. Companies can make more money from centralized control over systems than from truly distributed systems, and customers are suckers for the simplicity of delegating their needs to single providers.
The reason Google bought and destroyed dejanews.com, for example (try visiting that site) was to weaken one of the distributed sources of competition. Similar for RSS.
The reason Google bought and destroyed dejanews.com, for example (try visiting that site) was to weaken one of the distributed sources of competition. Similar for RSS.