Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad tablet: withdrawn after 48 days on sale. How's the Firefox OS phone going to fare? Photograph: Richard Levine/Alamy
"Open source" operating systems are the siren call of the internet. For years, we were promised, Linux was going to be the Next Big Thing on the desktop; the tired old empires of Windows and MacOS were going to be pushed aside, and everyone was going to embrace Linux (though quite which distro wasn't clear). From infants to grannies, they would all see the light, and install software that was built with the user in mind - as long as the user was someone who could hold the idea of the concentric circles of file ownership (root/wheel/std) in their head, and felt happy typing "chmod 644" from time to time if things got ticklish
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