> Imagine if all computing was truly open and we could run any app anywhere.
This was accomplished in the 1990s by Bell Labs with Plan9 and later, at the application layer, with Inferno.
It was additionally accomplished in the 1990s at the application layer by Sun Microsystems with Java and its applets.
Frankly, the history of computing is littered with well-engineered solutions to this problem and many of its variants.
The fundamental issue here is that businesses are involved and giving a business a monopoly over something so fundamental is usually a bad idea. The WWW succeeded because it grew somewhat organically.
This was accomplished in the 1990s by Bell Labs with Plan9 and later, at the application layer, with Inferno.
It was additionally accomplished in the 1990s at the application layer by Sun Microsystems with Java and its applets.
Frankly, the history of computing is littered with well-engineered solutions to this problem and many of its variants.
The fundamental issue here is that businesses are involved and giving a business a monopoly over something so fundamental is usually a bad idea. The WWW succeeded because it grew somewhat organically.