Commoditize your complement. If you sell operating systems, it pays to make compilers a commodity so that everyone can write programs for your operating system.

Commoditize your complement. If you sell operating systems, it pays to make compilers a commodity so that everyone can write programs for your operating system. This is true even if you aren’t “selling” the OS in the traditional sense of the word. The alternative is a world where developer tools are expensive, and thus only the rich can program their own computer.