The softly-stated context of TFA was how Apple, risen from the dead, Lo! this decade, has handed to Microsoft its ass. If I'm not mistaken, AAPL is a publicly traded company, whose stock has done right well despite the Fiscal End of the World. So you might want to re-think "innovators should be free from kowtowing to the market."

Latin nit-pick: quod = that which erat = was demonstrandum = a-to-be-demonstrated-thing The construction is the "passive periphrastic".