[familyop]

"Imagine the same kind of fragmentation occurring in a government system, where everybody does their own thing, and no one knows what the next person is up to. A city or state or national government, would end in chaos."

Imagine that being too much of a restricted portrait of the near future. Imagine such decentralization of all markets down to community and individual levels with all useful products being made by anyone and everyone willing to make them in micro-operations with no way to control them at all. That's on the way everywhere, and it won't be stopped.

[adorno]

The free-market system for everyday products and services, is not the same kind of market that needs to exist for operating systems. Sure, we can probably support hundreds or thousands of OSes, but then, who’s going to support them on the consumer side, where most people would be seeking help on a daily basis because of the myriad of problems and utter confusion.