> The only problem I see with FOSS is that a very very tiny portion of people, as a whole, will ever actually use it. Or more precisely, only a very very tiny

> The only problem I see with FOSS is that a very very tiny portion of people, as a whole, will ever actually use it. Or more precisely, only a very very tiny portion of the people will ever actually knowingly use it. How much of the internet utilizes the linux kernel? or Apache? Or MySql? or gcc/gdb/glibc? The impact of a single significant gcc change reverberates all over the computing world.