>Open protocols, or non profit open source projects will never compete with true entrepreneurship and hardcore entrepreneurs creating products. They just can't

>Open protocols, or non profit open source projects will never compete with true entrepreneurship and hardcore entrepreneurs creating products. They just can't move as quickly, or deliver good enough products. The best products don't win (Windows's monopoly is proof of that, Linux not being based on Plan 9 is another), and then you have the game theoretic threat (lock-in, insecurity, existential jeopardy) of proprietary products thrown in to boot. Those are usually more important for fundamental, backbone kind of things though (OSes, browsers, servers, crypto, etc. -- as opposed to your music player or a game).