Let’s just skip that most used operating systems are corporation owned. Corporations were fighting long and hard to make their dev tools win and not allowing c

Let’s just skip that most used operating systems are corporation owned. Corporations were fighting long and hard to make their dev tools win and not allowing competition to make advances. Office on macOS was win by Microsoft because Apple needed it more. Apple iTunes on windows ugh that was terrible. Browsers now are accepted middle ground - well Apple is not really happy about it - but SaaS, cloud and browsers made OS less of a problem. If OS would be still relevant MS would not become so “open” with new .Net and else. Let’s also think how capital intensive is writing a maintaining operating system or a browser. Let’s skip over all the patents and IP rights, like if you won’t make your own language you are owned by some corporation. If there would be no churn in tech we would be all nowadays drones owned by IBM having crappy devices they never ever iterate on because they like steady stream of income not new things. Microsoft happened because Bill wanted to make his own compiler it would not happen if he would accept status quo. The same with Apple - Woz and Steve wanted to make new computer and it was not compatible with whatever IBM had because they would sue and take them over. Node.js, electron and JS ecosystem also started because some people were expressing their freedom which is more important than having “single programming language for everything”. (Yes Linus with Linux as well just to throw him in).