@Rusty @dragonarchitect I disagree re: webOS and FirefoxOS.

#webOS failed due to lack of market penetration (there was only like 1 Tablet from #hp) and #FirefoxOS failed because @mozillaofficial didn't even offer to sell devices to folks like me and @fuchsiii that wanted one.

• The only devices with #Firefox OS in the #EU were a few #NetLock'd #prepaid phones that got sold in Spain (reqiring ID for no valid reason!) and which were essentially useless for anyone outside of Spain.

Add to that the absurdity that #Mozilla basically expected carriers (!!) to maintain and provide the #AppStore|s themselves and you get market fracturing worse than the "P.R." #China (!!!)…

It was mismanaged and self-sabotaged in the worst possible way.

• Similar to how #OLPC never sold the #XO1 in retail and didn't even offer the "Give one, Get one" deal in most places...

The #Duopoly of #Android & #iOS wasn't unavoidable, but an outcome of #SelfSabotage and halfassed non-commitment by competitors!

@serge yeah, #RMS is a cringy "FLOSS extremist" in the worst sense of it, because he started hating #OLPC for merely making it possible to put #Windows on the #XO1.

• Not delivering it with it even as a BTO option, but merely offering #drivers.

And for him everythng that isn't #GPLv3 or #AGPLv3 isn't #FLOSS to him, with his fanboys getting caught harrassing projects to "switch to GPLv3" for no reason.

...needless to say it and the #OLPC #XO1 are what made #fanless #StickPCs and #Netbooks as good as they are today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ7qkZkp57c