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🌐 In retrospect, Bill Gates was almost an IBMer.
IBM builds the box. 🖥️
Microsoft controls the OS. 💾
Everyone else builds around it. 🔒
The network decentralized the computers.
The business model centralized the gatekeepers. 🔑🏰
Follow the Money warns that transparency without joinability is opacity. 🧩🔍 In the IBM-Microsoft story, a pile of PCs can look decentralized while the license, standard, and distribution links still point upward. https://LifeLog.felineunion.org