One or two market players decide user adoption is more important than actual revenue, and start giving away product for free. Now the rest of the market has to

One or two market players decide user adoption is more important than actual revenue, and start giving away product for free. Now the rest of the market has to follow suit to compete. Upshot: code becomes worthless, and the market becomes a winner-takes-all situation in which the goal is to parlay name recognition to capital returns on equity, not profits. And you wonder why Ballmer called Linux "a cancer."