Yeah I get that, and I think that's the primary reason it's difficult to do well. I think there _are_ ways to do it right. For instance, open-sourcing a Window

Yeah I get that, and I think that's the primary reason it's difficult to do well. I think there _are_ ways to do it right. For instance, open-sourcing a Windows application is not necessarily problematic if 99.9% of your user base has never ever compiled something from source. Heck, my father is the kind of person who doesn't know the difference between "Windows" and "gmail". He has purchased software for his business once, it would've made no difference to him whether it was open-source or not. Despite my believing that it's possible, I can't really think of any examples other than redhat and Qt from the top of my head...