Hacker News with Generative AI: Open Protocols

Will MCP stay for the long term? (rnikhil.com)
MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how applications provide context to LLMs.
Freedom to run 3rd party clients (borretti.me)
Client freedom, by analogy to the four freedoms, is the freedom to operate a third-party client to an API. Email, IRC, and RSS are open protocols with client freedom. You can read email through a native GUI app, a spartan text-only client, and even an Emacs mode.