Comment by justsomehnguy

Linux succeeded in large part because it was free, compared to UNIXes of the time which also were in a licensing and lawsuit hell. But yes, Linus himself is a big part of Linux success and benevolent dictatorship is one of the part.

> That would destroy backwards compatibility

People who weren't bitten by it rarely understand that.

> PowerShell v1 and especially v2 were brilliant, elegant, and beautiful

Oh yes! One thing what I really liked is what an extremely big part of PS... was written in PS! You literally could drill down some system cmdlets to see, learn and adapt! It started to dwindle down with PS5, sadly, with performance requirements.