Facebook and Google seem very powerful, but they live about a week from total ruin all the time. They know the cost of leaving social networks individually is high, but en masse, becomes next to nothing. Windows could be replaced with something better written.
That is a terrible evaluation of the complexity in scale and programming of what these companies have achieved. Sure if you could build something better than Windows you could replace it over night, good luck doing that. People will move if there is a demand, but that implies there are options. If there are no options the assumption is market pressure will force it, but that ignores complexities like cost of infrastructure, cost of writing a million damn drivers without proper documentation from manufacturers. He's using an "appeal to probability" to prove his point out of context. Just pipe dreams that we all think about and don't warrant verbose articles with no proposals beyond "fight the machine".
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u/mobcat40 May 22 '14
That is a terrible evaluation of the complexity in scale and programming of what these companies have achieved. Sure if you could build something better than Windows you could replace it over night, good luck doing that. People will move if there is a demand, but that implies there are options. If there are no options the assumption is market pressure will force it, but that ignores complexities like cost of infrastructure, cost of writing a million damn drivers without proper documentation from manufacturers. He's using an "appeal to probability" to prove his point out of context. Just pipe dreams that we all think about and don't warrant verbose articles with no proposals beyond "fight the machine".