  It was the year 2020, ten years after the great operating system wars of 2010, after the great American recession of 2009, after the world fell into chaos only to stand up again within a world of enlightenment, where Windows was cast out of the light and into the murky depths of obscurity; in its wake, Linux stood with all the glory and valor of a would-be king amongst commoners, of a hero amongst cowards. It was a world where many nations used open source, where many nations proudly turned their backs on a proprietary past, where many nations said, "enough is enough" and that today and tomorrow and for the rest of their lives, they would use a better, faster, more efficient operating system, and they would no longer be forced into madness at the feet of a mega corporation and its buggy, slow, and wasteful operating system. Many nations that is, except for the once powerful America, wherein many office buildings, many hospitals, many schools, there was still running that last dynasty of the former mega corp, Windows XP, some nineteen years after its initial release.
Many nations scoffed at the Americans. Back in the years before the great war, many of these nations had already looked willingly at an alternative to the mega corp spawn Windows. Many of these nations had seen the first rays of light of a new day, where public schools did not have to waste billions on proprietary software thereby allowing them to increase the number of books in the classroom, build new schools, and provide teachers with better equipment; where governments did not spend the tax dollars of their people on wasteful, inefficient software; where hospital budgets could be used to better provide health care to patients instead of dumping millions on software that could have been acquired for nothing. Yes, it was still in the Americas where men and women had run in terror at the thought of free software, because free software had made these people see nothing but red, see the beast of communism where in truth stood the once and future king.  It was ten years after the great war, and the Americans were trapped, still typing away at keyboards connected to desktop computers infected with the mega corp spawn. If only they had supported the open source way, the better way, when they had the chance. They had fallen for all of the mega corp's lies. Hadn't it been too difficult to learn Linux? It didn't seem so for all the nations that had embraced it. Hadn't it really been more expensive than Windows? Free can't really be free, right? But it was free: the operating system, the software, etc. Sure, you could pay for support, for a helping hand, but that was hardly the cost of Windows, the cost of all that software, the cost of all those crashes, the cost of the great blue screen of death. No, everything the Americans had been told were lies, and the Americans learned it too late; they were stuck in a proprietary noose, wrapped tightly around their neck. They were stuck in their yesteryear, when they weren't technologically behind every other nation, stuck in the year 2001.
"It was Vista! Vista ruined us," The Americans told their children this over and over, as a scary story similar to tales of the boogey man. But it wasn't Vista. Vista was their chance to set themselves free from the mega corp spawn. Vista had been the mega corp's sickly child; it was the symbolic representation of the mega corp's decadent nature: too expensive, too slow, requires too much hardware. The Americans had their opportunity to say they had enough, as the other nations had done, to end the great war before it began, and step inside the world of Linux, nestled in the valley of open source. Now, in hindsight, in the year 2020, the Americans finally saw where fate had brought them -- into oblivion.
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