Firstly I suspect the basic assertion of the post itself (where are the numbers?.. Or is this just an opinion based on anecdotal experience) Secondly, even if

Firstly I suspect the basic assertion of the post itself (where are the numbers?.. Or is this just an opinion based on anecdotal experience) Secondly, even if this is true, isn't it maybe because a lot of traditionally proprietary software companies /developers are now contributing to open source? When it started, people writing FOSS were doing it for different reasons than today. If there was no other benefit beyond freedom for the creation in an open manner (as a thought experiment let's say one could perfectly test software for bugs and security issues, and that adding functionality didn't necessitate access to source code), do you believe Foss would be as popular as it is today? The beautiful thing about sharing your code is there are more than one 'right' reason to do it.