I haven't yet found the best, comprehensive historical account of the The Browser Wars and it's a little early to call but I believe something similar is happening among Lightning implementations.
It maps pretty neatly on the surface at least:
  1. an open standard
  2. the inevitability of widespread adoption
  3. businesses with incentives to dominate
I ran a couple twitter polls a few weeks ago about related issues because it looks like the implementations are diverging which effectively means the spec is ossifying (temporarily at least).
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Just wait till lightning is integrated into browsers, let’s get browser war #3 going.
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Oh crap, is this what the Impervious browser is all about? 😉
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