The fact is that no one would buy a car with the sort of restrictions built into it that we put up with in software. When you think how much it costs in plant and machinery to produce a car compared with a piece of software and then look at how much money MS has made from windows why aren't there more choices? Is it that an OS is so incredibly complicated that only a tiny handful of extremely gifted programmers are able to make one? Linux shows that it is possible to produce an alternative OS for the PC so why aren't there more of them? My Atari ST from c.1989 had a GEM desktop - everything appeared in windows - when the PC was still using a CLI - so presumeably Microsoft didn't invent the idea of using windows even if they were the first to trademark the name. Anyone know why we don't have more choices?
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