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by digler999 3977 days ago
> the author falls flat explaining the why.

Probably because the proprietary ecosystems are built from the ground up to support the profiteering enterprise that is/was microsoft. They don't make money by embracing open standards. They make money (or at least historically) by creating technical monopolies with short shelf-lives that naturally support vendor lock-in. They make money by creating the problem (obsolesence ) and selling you the solution (*Yipee! version (N+1) Super Enterprise is officially released. Time to upgrade, everybody !).