Maybe the legal turf-grabbing has been so vicious that you haven't noticed. Microsoft basically sued Linux off of store shelves in the 2000's. The only reason

Maybe the legal turf-grabbing has been so vicious that you haven't noticed. Microsoft basically sued Linux off of store shelves in the 2000's. The only reason they had nominal competition from the Mac was that Apple is one of the only companies with enough patents to keep their lawyers at bay. I strongly disagree about robustness (mostly due to the turf-grabbing, so I'm actually agreeing with you at this point). One company controlled the platform for most computing for most of the modern computing era and they were pretty lousy at it. It's shocking how long it took Microsoft to put things like a useable e-mail client and calendar into a standard PC (because it would have interfered with their Outlook sales). The browser most people use sucked for most of the 00's and you have to wonder if misaligned incentives were at play.