Isn't that the history of computing? the word UNIX points at the disdain its makers had for Multics. They broke every rule IBM had.

PCs were these toys for people who had no acces to real computers, until they were the standard. Microsoft provided toy OSes until they wiped out almost anybody else. Java, MySql and subversion are other examples.

I've read somewhere that every succesfull product has a phase where the world laughs at it. If that hadn't happened, it would have been smothered in the cradle by the behemots of its time. Being laughed at gave it time to grow.

They break the rule these days by actually giving a shit about security instead of doing what many of us are guilty of doing: dumbing it down for the lowest common denominator user to make money.

Has created some incredible UI paradigms and elements, but...