> We entered the new millennium with the concept that most computers could use most extension hardware with (relatively) little effort, and you could upgrade yo

> We entered the new millennium with the concept that most computers could use most extension hardware with (relatively) little effort, and you could upgrade your computer's basic operating system at will; even change it to another one entirely. And who enabled that? Not everyone wants to admit it, but it was IBM together with Microsoft which made this possible. This openness was thanks to a proprietary vendor wanting to make one operating system that ran on a wide variety of hardware. The chaos of the embedded world is Linux's doing.