It was the “Nobody got fired for buying IBM Microsoft” attitude of corporate IT departments that got us the Windows hemogony in the 90s. The security nightmare precipitated by the Microsoft monoculture (remember Word macro viruses?) led those same IT departments to lock plebs’ desktops and networks down tight. The Cambrian explosion of the web in the early/mid 2000s was in part an end-run around corporate security policies which made it impossible to get any interesting or useful softwa...
