[marcosdumay]

Wouldn't you like some OS that you can install everywhere, without Microsoft getting in the way, and have a lot of applications, all sandboxed with segregated data?

We are getting it. Firefox needs a DE. If the iframe security improves just a little bit, it can even be a 3rd party DE.

And yes, at some point I hope people do flatten it. People already tried a few times, but it was too soon.

[Schroedingersat]

Eventually we will have invented mainframes with X thin clients.

[marcosdumay]

It's more like a distributed Unix installation with a shared central /usr.