I think that a spelling reform, if ever created, has the potential to come up slowly like open source software.

Toby Bartels <toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu> wrote:

I disagree.
A spelling reform is unlikely to be accepted by teachers
without some authority's recognising it officially.
Since there is no plausible such authority now
(unlike in the days of Noah Webster for Americans),
standard English spelling will continue to be taught,
and thus it will continue to be used.