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They're not, at all. It was invented by Facebook, but it's literally just a few lines of metadata that applications can choose to read if they want.
by FoxBJK 11mo ago
They're not, at all. It was invented by Facebook, but it's literally just a few lines of metadata that applications can choose to read if they want.
- kaoD 11mo agoBeing invented by $company does not preclude it from being a standard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_standard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_standard > A technical standard may be developed privately or unilaterally, for example by a corporation, regulatory body, military, etc. PDF is now an international standard (ISO 32000) but it was invented by Adobe. HTML was invented at the CERN and is now controlled by W3C (a private consortium). OpenGL was created by SGI and is maintained by the Khronos Group. All had different "ownership" paths and yet I'd say all of them are standards.