I'd say your last question is way too narrow and short-term. It's almost by definition hard to explain because it takes a while to see and/or appreciate the eff

I'd say your last question is way too narrow and short-term. It's almost by definition hard to explain because it takes a while to see and/or appreciate the effects? Let's see if this is a close enough analogy; I'll forever maintain that Linux won the OS wars decisively broadly, and that 1-2% of the desktop is an overwhelming victory. The numbers don't sound great, but what you want to do is to compare to "what would this look like if it was only 'big-company' owned software," and the answer is very different. We probably wouldn't even be talking about "Operating systems" at all. Just "Windows" and "Apple" boxes. Keeping this stuff open, by whatever means, law, hackery, force, whatever, has long term down the road multiplicative effects.