It all comes down to concentration of the industry. Open standards thrive when one company isn't able to just roll their own stack from the hardware all the way up to the applications; in-housing and locking-down thrive when one company is big enough to just do everything itself.

When Google was small it embraced an open OS, the open web, email, RSS, etc. Now it's big enough that it doesn't need (and therefore doesn't want) open technologies.

Real scary next step is locking all PCs to MS Cloud and preventing consumers from accessing high performance computers.

We need a way to manufacture our own computer hardware at home. We need hardware manufacturing to be as easy and democratized as free software development. Until then, we'll forever be at the mercy of these corporations.

That’s infeasible.

Do you expect to be able to press your own semiconductors?

Maybe one day someone will create new technology that will enable manufacturing electronics at home. I don't know.

Indeed. On the bright side PC gaming may save humanity.

You've obviously never read global chat in Chivalry 2. ;-)