> It's kind of weird that Linux in a way became what people were afraid Windows would The fear surrounding Windows was that a company would own computing even

> It's kind of weird that Linux in a way became what people were afraid Windows would The fear surrounding Windows was that a company would own computing even more than IBM owned computing in the 1950s: Microsoft would be it, every other company would exist at Microsoft's sufferance and effectively pay a tax in order to be allowed to keep existing, and anything which would threaten Microsoft's current business plans would be destroyed through a mix of API changes, revocation of developer licenses, AARD code-like subterfuge, and, in extremis, actual lawsuits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code Add Palladium on top of that, and PCs are better locked-down than cell phones turned out to be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computing_Base https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computi...