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Everyone knows what Microsoft did to the PC market in the 1980s. Everyone knows what the Unix Arts & Crafts movement wants to do to computers today. Open up t
by rudolfwinestock 8y ago
Everyone knows what Microsoft did to the PC market in the 1980s. Everyone knows what the Unix Arts & Crafts movement wants to do to computers today.
Open up the bootloader and computers become commodities (modulo some special cases). The makers of those commodities become hostage to whatever platform becomes most popular on those computers.
Instead of thinking in terms of "freedom," one should think of this situation in terms of power.
- pjmlp 8y agoThey liberated it. If it wasn't for IBM's mistakes, all computers would be like Apple and the mobile platforms. Ecosystem silos where everyone would be throwing away their ST, 500, Acorn, Apple, etc every time it was time to upgrade.