Actually it's much easier than we thought: the root cause of all this mess is a simple fact that traditional model of personal computing is proprietary to hell and back - you've got proprietary hardware running proprietary code processing proprietary data. Proprietary solutions are designed to impose vendor lock-in on their users and that's why we're completely screwed until we somehow manage to establish free and open alternative as a widely enough recognised standard or until we completely reverse engineer at least the most commonly used ones in order to provide solid interoperability. Notice that open standards tend to dominate areas which M$ and the likes never touched or where they were too late to the party, because they actually empower their users instead of tying them down in exchange for questionable short-term "benefits"; it's just hard to break the vicious circles that are already there and I have to insist that being unable to get any machine you like without mandatory initial dose of proprietary infection certainly doesn't help.
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