> Open source software seems to do especially well mostly when the end-user of the software product is a programmer/software engineer/IT type. Yes. The article

> Open source software seems to do especially well mostly when the end-user of the software product is a programmer/software engineer/IT type. Yes. The article and the parent regard industrial benefits. Most of the propriety alternatives that you mention derive a great deal of their value from networked capabilities, made possible due to the proliferation of GNU+Linux on servers. In this way, the availability of GNU+Linux without traditional copyright restrictions has been a huge boon to the commercial software industry, just as the availablity of printed knowledge without traditional copyright restrictions was a huge boon to various German industries.