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Operating systems and car dealerships

Friday, November 4th, 2011

An excerpt from the essay In the Beginning was the Command Line (CC BY-SA 2.0) by Michael Foord. The analogy between cars and operating systems is not half bad, and so let me run with it for a moment, as a way of giving an executive summary of our situation today. Imagine a crossroads where […]