All of those things developed out of necessity by people who either needed the functionality, or didn't want to pay someone else for it. The demand was strong f

All of those things developed out of necessity by people who either needed the functionality, or didn't want to pay someone else for it. The demand was strong for open standards because the supply for software couldn't keep pace with demand. Open source didn't really eat away at large software companies for a long time because those customers were never going to buy that product to begin with. Now that computing has been commoditized to the point where just executing code is a commodity itself it would appear that the supply of software has outpaced the demand for software. Open-source is now eating away at somebody's lunch, and will be dealt with in a competitive nature instead of a passive one. Buckle up.