Moore's law certainly has brought us a long way from CP/M with an 8-bit processor and an 8-inch floppy disk drive in the 1970's.
I think it mattered to the course of personal computer development that neither Digital Research's CP/M nor Microsoft's MS-DOS were open source.
I expect it will matter to the course of cloud service development whether its stacks are open source.
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