Comment by benjismith

I thought this pull-quote was interesting:

"Interoperability only works when it is built into the platform from the start"

-- Lucas Lasota, FSFE Legal Programme Manager

To my mind, this is almost exactly opposite of true. Most new capabilities need to be incubated in private first, so that the APIs can get real-world usage and have a chance to evolve into a stable state before they become public interoperability promises.