Literal, please. Competing software ecosystems can constitute valuable economic activity. Broken Windows is, if anything, the current state of affairs: running

Literal, please. Competing software ecosystems can constitute valuable economic activity. Broken Windows is, if anything, the current state of affairs: running important things on Microsoft Windows is becoming intolerable, with layers of expensive (dollars and computrons) fixes being applied. Is it economically better to start over or to keep trying to defend the indefensible?