It's so heartening to see the scales finally beginning to tilt in favour of free and open-source software after decades. While one reason (for OSes) is of cour

It's so heartening to see the scales finally beginning to tilt in favour of free and open-source software after decades. While one reason (for OSes) is of course the much improved UI, installation/upgrade and app availability, I wonder how big a role the relative decline in the importance of the OS itself plays? I chanced by this tweet earlier today: "Steve Jobs told Dropbox they were a feature. Increasingly its looking like he had it backwards, the host OS is the disposable feature" (https://twitter.com/tolmasky/status/384756799351451648 https://twitter.com/tolmasky/status/384756799351451648)