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I remember seeing it somewhere ages ago, might not be correct.
It was saying the reason why Microsoft was dominant on OS market right now because it was Sony didn’t wanted to invest in operating systems back then.
I doubt it would've won anyway. There were loads of OS's at that time, most not having the issue of the US government intervening, and none of them won either.
Had the japenese not been spooked by the sugestion it waa a threat(which was cleared up as not being one) it totally could have been adopted nationwide, as it was ready to deploy to their schools.
And today we have BSD as the basis of Apples OS.
Microsoft has gone from say 85% market share down to the 60s now I think.
Maybe we will see a day MS loses to Linux since that hit 10% use last month, and has over 15% use in India.
MS certainly is not helping themselves win lately.
Reminds me of Microsoft killing Nokia and their new Linux phones.
It’s time for other countries to create their own operating systems again
Make other countries create other operating systems again
MOCCOOSA
Bless you
Fish is good to eat
We’ve been doing it for a long time. Linus is from Finland.
Currently, Linux Foundation resides in the US, though.
"Capitalism breeds innovation."
Also capitalism:
Competition breeds innovation. Commercial pressure can be one source of such competition, but isn't the only one.
Capitalism abhors competition. It breeds innovation only if it serves to eliminate competition.
Absolutely correct, Capitalism will incentivize innovation only as long as it's profitable to do so. Once a company becomes a dominant player in their industry, innovation actually becomes largely unprofitable.
We can see this play out all the time, this is why industry giants almost never try to outcompete smaller start ups by innovating their products and services, instead, they either crush them out of the market via a bunch of different methods. Or they just buy them out, kill off their IP, or if it's way better, they just brand it as their own, and usually fire most of the old staff.
In a Capitalist system, this actually creates a whole new incentive structure where start ups will try to grow as fast as possible with the sole intention of getting bought out by an industry titan, making the founders of the start up filthy rich.
One of the biggest lie to keep the current system in place.
Private corporations parasite themselves into R&D paid for by the government and act like they invented the fire again.
The Internet is built on FOSS and got captured to be sold back to us.
Capitalism breeds innovation just like people leave their partner when they finally have enough to be abused.
Capitalism breeds protectionism.
That tracks.
The more I learn about American history the more frustrated I become with our species in general. Our country could be so much more livable now, but for a handful of vulgarly wealthy people who only ever cared about number going up at any cost.
And to make it worse I'm reading a biography of John D. Rockefeller, so I'm about to hate our species just a tiny bit more.
All of our lives could be so much better. We should stop making dystopian futuristic movies, and start making hopeful ones that help people imagine how much BETTER things could be.
Solarpunk instead of Cyberpunk!
And once upon a time there were more than three PC graphics card makers. The paranoid schizo US really fucked up scientific and technological progress.
They rose to the top because they were the only country that could still build things after the rest of the world got flattened in World War II. Then the rest of the world rebuilt itself so the only asset the US had left was economic inertia. They then proceeded to spend decades doing everything they could to increase the value of that inertia by using their influence to encourage policies that resulted the rich getting richer.
There also were more than two PC platforms (and we barely have two now; Apple was pretty close to going away too). I miss being the Atari ST guy in a circle of people who all had different types of computers. It didn’t last very long but it was way more fun.
Japan tried to walk where Terry Davis was running laps
Something similar happened to Slovene Iskra Triglav computer which was quite advanced for the time (capable of running three different CPUs) but then caught in between US-Soviet cold war/embargo while trying to sell them to Soviet Union.
Three CPUs with different architectures on one device sounds crazy. That's amazing.
replaced the tree-structured directory hierarchy with an arbitrary directed graph.
TBH that sounds like a total nightmare
because 
of this guy? 
