Wow, an open source gift economy beating the closed-source capitalistic model? You don't say. Wikipedia handily beat Britannica (the most well-known and presti

Wow, an open source gift economy beating the closed-source capitalistic model? You don't say. Wikipedia handily beat Britannica (the most well-known and prestigious encyclopedia, sold door to door) and Encarta (supported by Microsoft) The Web beat AOL, CompuServe, MSN, newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations, etc. Linux beat closed source competitors on tons of environments Apache and NGinX beat Microsoft Internet Information Server and whatever else proprietary servers. About the only place it doesn't beat, is consumer-facing frontends. Because open-source does take skill to use and maintain. But that's why the second layer (sysadmins, etc.) have chosen it.