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After the first personal computers were built in the last quarter of the last century, it was the commoditisation of the industry that enabled Bill Gates and his Microsoft Windows operating system — terrible as it was — to get ahead. PCs built by the bigger American companies were just too expensive for the rest of the world, but the fact that one could put together a box by buying grey-market parts led to the spread of Windows.

In what is a major blow to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's aspirations to make India a force in the semiconductor space, Taiwanese giant Foxconn has pulled out of a deal with metals-to-oil conglomerate Vedanta.

An Indian journalist, who is also a science and free software activist, has dismissed the deal which India signed with American firm Micron Technology recently, calling it simply a PR exercise.