> tie the future of computing to a single for-profit company's quickly enlarging platform The 'future' of compute is ubiquitous trustworthy compute for all. A

> tie the future of computing to a single for-profit company's quickly enlarging platform The 'future' of compute is ubiquitous trustworthy compute for all. A federation where no one entity controls a pool of power over a given layer of the stack. The layers that run on top of that layer will continue to divide and stratify themselves, as it always has been. They will also assuredly be owned by someone or something. My vote is the something.