Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix

It’s not a technical problem it’s an organisational/funding problem.

All those new tools are proposed by organisations that do not want to contribute to existing distribution networks, but are unable to set up alternatives (because that’s hard and expensive).

When everyone will be fed up with the current mess things will consolidate violently (like they did at the end of the unix wars, with most of the companies that had refused team play on the losing side).