Money and corporate influence and culture is a big cause of most of those problems. If Linus Torvalds had been born american (just discovered he is naturalized

Money and corporate influence and culture is a big cause of most of those problems. If Linus Torvalds had been born american (just discovered he is naturalized american since 2010 https://lwn.net/Articles/404729/ https://lwn.net/Articles/404729/ ), I'm pretty certain Linux would be quite a different beast today. Generally, computing works best when the software dictates the homogeneity of hardware, something Microsoft managed to do. Microsoft is able to influence the hardware industry, which is why windows is a success. I'm also suspecting microsoft got some kind of relationship with hardware vendors, to help them write drivers etc. If you look at android, it's exactly the same scenario: the hardware follows the software, not the other way around. Hardware will always be the problem, especially as long as hardware tools are also proprietary, and generally all you need to do is follow how the US maintains its grip on the industry.