Benn Stancil (@benn)

I don't disagree that an open standard is ideal; the question for me is how do we get there? This isn't just hypothetical either - SQL itself is a long-standing open standard with a ton of community traction, and databases can't even stick to one version of that. To me, dbt is in a good position here largely because it can become the standard without people agreeing to it. If people use it, we can move in that direction; there doesn't need to be any central coordination or consortium to decide this is now the way to do things.