imagine
a PC industry where…
-  broadband ISPs determined which PCs customers could buy
-  ISPs determined which applications a PC would use
-  creating applications involved mandatory certification, restrictive licensing and exclusivity
-  wifi was licensed spectrum (ahem, we paid how much for 3G?!)
-  could such an industry have given rise to the web & windows economy?
-  without openness, user-generated content, the web, wifi, open source and two decades of industry growth would’ve been much smaller