Having “standards” is not obsolete. What is obsolete is the means by which they are established. IMO, open source created under open governance with a robust and diverse (in every sense) community is far more efficient than prose spec development needing to be xlated ... \1https://twitter.com/jimjag/status/1144934362020044800 …
Not necessarily, there are moves to formalize processes to have open source ratified as an open standard in @OASISopen and in @linuxfoundation