[0x006A]

many proprietary protocols iterate themself out of existence, just because some of them survive does not mean its the better model. Look at the video codec space, proprietary codes have long lost and have gone the way of Real Media, Windows Media Video and many others. While H.26X which is the result of design by committee are used everywhere.

[treyd]

It might be a different scenario with (modern) codecs where to get good use out of them it helps a lot to ship dedicated hardware. That's not true of file sync protocols.