Revolution Os

For non-techies, the "OS" of the title stands for "operating system," the hidden, underlying software that enables your computer to do what computers do: run programs. Without an operating system, a computer is just a box — so it goes without saying that whoever owns the rights to the dominant OS pretty much rules the personal computer roost. Case in point: Bill Gates and Microsoft, whose Windows operating system now runs an overwhelming majority of office workstations and home computers. Microsoft not only owns the system — ever the capitalist, Gates led the way in the notion of "proprietary software" — but keeps the source code firmly under lock and ...