Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>This article doesn't start very well, specially because the author goes right into a conspirational mode. Maybe most Internet users don't want to deal with XML as a format and Google, being a capitalist for-profit company, wants just to appease those Internet users... </p><p>"Google is managing to achieve what Microsoft couldn't: killing the open web. The efforts of tech giants to gain control of and enclose the commons for extractive purposes have been clear to anyone who has been following the history of the Internet for at least the last decade, and the adopted strategies are varied in technique as they are in success, from Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (EEE) to monopolization and lock-in.</p><p>What I want to talk about in this article is the war Google has been waging on XML for over a decade, why it matters that they've finally encroached themselves enough to get what they want, and what we can do to fight this."</p><p><a href="https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/goog</span><span class="invisible">le-killing-open-web/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/XML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XML</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OpenWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenWeb</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/RSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSS</span></a></p>