Time to abandon TAS?

[pinkman]

We all cried because the people in charge of the Minitel did not think to reuse the VT100 de facto standard (“not invented here” syndrome). And yes they used the Minitel argument to denigrate Internet.
Then the opening of the telco market to other competitors than France Telecom only was done upon the FT infrastructure, which accelerated it, but it was too late to develop the startup infrastructure we saw growing so fast in the Silicon Valley (and other places).