We will win the war for general-purpose computing
I read through several pages before giving up and jumping to the end ... but what I saw gave no objective reason that the war will be won, this is pure hope or maybe a &quot;call to arms&quot;. I actually don&#x27;t see any convincing reason why we&#x27;ll &quot;win&quot; this war and in fact I feel like we are on the precipice of becoming permanently locked out from it ever being possible. The main reason is the complex web of laws interacting established platforms that make it effectively illegal for any new competitor to ever become established. All over the world governments are starting to regulate complex and specific requirements around security, surveillance, encryption, etc that are fundamentally incompatible with true &quot;general purpose&quot; computing. For example, if your computer can encrypt things without a backdoor then authorities cannot listen. But if it can&#x27;t then by definition it is not a general purpose computer. Which is it going to be? I think governments will win and we will lose general purpose computing.