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Why Tech Consortia Keep the Stack From Flying Apart

A hundred and nine pins in an HDMI cable, a handshake protocol that negotiates color depth before a single frame moves. Nobody thinks about standards because they work — until they don't. This episode traces the consortium model from GSM's push for European roaming through Bluetooth's five-company SIG, Blu-ray's format war with HD DVD, and HDMI's closed gatekeeper spec. Along the way: why versioning is the actual product, how a "counterweight" participant — regulators, content owners, retailers — prevents any single manufacturer from capturing a standard, and why the pattern of open…

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