If we had had some smart-aleck time traveler guy from
42 years in the future beam back in time and say:
"No! Don't buy Windows! It's Crap! Buy this instead!"
People would have asked: "Why?"
And the time-traveling software engineer would have answered
using terminology and jargon that had not yet been invented
- and they would have bought Windows anyway because
the blue box it was in was more attractive - little
knowing that the "pretty blue box" would ultimately usher
humanity into the nightmarish scenario of "The Blue Screen of Death"
and computer viruses, malware, adware, etc.
And if the timeline had been disrupted in such a manner, there
may well have been temporal distortions that caused
people to spontaneously mutate into cute penguin-like
stuffed animals.
And then how could the human race have proceeded under
such hellishly 'cute' conditions?
Correct - It couldn't have.
So therefore, the free market should always be allowed to
make such decisions - not weirdo know-it-all time traveling geeks.
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