In the beginning there was DOS, then PC-Dos, and IBM Dos, and the MS-dos. People need to think about that for a couple of minutes. After there came MS-Dos, what happened to the other Dos's? They pretty much disappeared off the radar scope, fell out of view, and went pretty much bye bye, not buy buy.

Now lets remember the Internet explorer wars. Think about that and what happened, yes Netscape climbed out of the ashes and re-arose like a phoenix out of the ashes as I believe Fire Fox, I could have the name wrong, but then MS lost out to Google.

Now I would like to remind people tha Microsoft Corp. bought git-hub. I know when I mentioned this when it happened people were unconcerned about it. I hope people never need to be concerned about it. However most of the decentralization is built through git-hub. Where do the developers send people that want to develop for steem?

If you can't control them, join them, then control them. Open source is only open source if no one can tell you what you can and can not develop.

I do not know about other countries, I barely know about my own when it comes to technology and government controls and corporation controls. Most of what I know is likely wrong, or just hearsay, such as since the Government can not easily trace what you do or where you visit with the TOR web browser it is illegal to use it in America. Fact, Fiction, Hearsay, or Urban Legend, I really don't know for a fact.

That brings us back to Microsoft and the browser wars, I am not sure who ended up winning in the field of American Courts, Microsoft or Netscape/Mozilla, it matters not one bit today, other than Microsoft now controls Git-Hub, owns Git-Hub. Where and what happened to the software suites of Word Perfect, Lotus Works?

I would like to think that Steemit is going to be around in 3 more years, but, but people need to look at history and Microsoft when it comes to things just going away. Microsoft can close down git-hub at will, they OWN IT.