The open web's guardians are acting like it's already dead
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1CNYN)
The World Wide Web Consortium -- an influential standards body devoted to the open web -- used to make standards that would let anyone make a browser that could view the whole Web; now they're making standards that let the giant browser companies and giant entertainment companies decide which browsers will and won't work on the Web of the future. (more")