In 1995, there was Apple MacIntosh, MS Windows, and Linux each struggling to become the operating system of choice.
Linux was very new, very undeveloped, an opensource experiment being developed by millions of volunteer programmers on the Internet throughout the world.
Microsoft and Apple were for-profit businesses, with corporate headquarters, salaried employees, and all that comes with that business model.
If you know something about how Linux came to be, you understand the difference between an opensource and a proprietary model.
It took at least ten years for Linux to catch up, and in some ways Linux still needs to catch up, but the benefits of opensource software development as opposed to proprietary development are now clear to the world.
Before then, few knew what the term opensource even meant.
This is how I see OpenBazaar today in relation to the online retail space.
Peer-to-peer cryptotrading will eventually catch up to Amazon, Ebay, and Jack Ma, although by that time they will have all adjusted their business models to compensate for the changes ahead.
