Cooperative Interoperability and the Importance of Standards

This chapter discusses the importance of cooperative interoperability and how it benefits various industries. The hosts give examples such as the standardization of gasoline to work in all cars, the use of USB cards, and the format rules of JPEG files. They highlight that voluntary standards have been around for a long time and that companies should embrace cooperative interoperability. However, they also criticize certain companies, like Apple, for breaking cooperative interoperability in order to control and profit from their own formats.