I can still install and run whatever operating system and software I want on my laptop _and_ desktop, and I don't see any sign that that freedom will go away an

I can still install and run whatever operating system and software I want on my laptop _and_ desktop, and I don't see any sign that that freedom will go away anytime soon. The question is how much of that is thanks to this kind of article appearing for the past thirty years. It's kind of like saying Y2K wasn't a problem: it would have been a problem if we hadn't prepared for it.