Fair. Although you could imagine a world where things like the original .Net trusted computing initiative succeeded in full force, and you could not purchase ge

Fair. Although you could imagine a world where things like the original .Net trusted computing initiative succeeded in full force, and you could not purchase general purpose PC that let you execute any unmanaged code. Just look at the phone market, you can execute C code technically sure - but in unprivileged user space - with hardware you "own". (yes I know about rooting, but this is rhetoric about a hypothetical)