Summoning Adobe to fix a monopoly feels... Perverse.
At a technical level, they might have the chops to build something from scratch, but they've more than abused their market position over the last two decades. We don't need another standard without interop.
Put the engineering into open source or open standards. We can't continue with software society relies on being locked in like this.
It reminds me about a story by Philip K. Dick - Autofab. It's a story about postapocaliptic world with automated factories that do not stop to work after the work causing trouble for people. People decide to make the factories fight with each other. Let's just say it doesn't end in a good way.
At a technical level, they might have the chops to build something from scratch, but they've more than abused their market position over the last two decades. We don't need another standard without interop.
Put the engineering into open source or open standards. We can't continue with software society relies on being locked in like this.