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> So, in your mind, the world's most active software ecosystem

It’s not the world’s most active software ecosystem. The web is.

> is failing because it doesn't extract as much capital

It is failing as a business.

> as a system set up as a premium product ecosystem targeted at the world's elites?

If you consider most American teenagers to be ‘the world’s elites’, then ok.

> By the same logic, you could argue that Linux is failing relative to both OS X and Windows in the server market because it's not making as much money.

Only if it were true, but it isn’t.




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