It sounds like the author really should be saying open source fails because of profit motives. Clearly there have been many open source successes, so it just do

It sounds like the author really should be saying open source fails because of profit motives. Clearly there have been many open source successes, so it just doesn't check out. And the author muses that "regulations" might be the solution. What regulations? Regulations aren't just a magic beauracracy that fixes things, you need a framework. Without suggesting specifics about what regulations might be helpful, I don't think it can really be said that the author suggested any solution at all.