A beautiful mistake that led to an open and competitive PC market. While Windows dominated, the availability of PC hardware allowed the growth of Linux, too. A

A beautiful mistake that led to an open and competitive PC market. While Windows dominated, the availability of PC hardware allowed the growth of Linux, too. And I’m saying that as somebody who was a huge Amiga fan back in the day, and moved quite reluctantly to PCs after that. Any new platform these days is likely to be user-hostile: locked down, tied to a monopolistic App Store, disallowing development without special permission, and abusing secure boot tech to lock out alternative operating systems. So we should be fighting to keep the traditional Intel-based PC alive, as we’re unlikely to see anything like it again!