I expect to get down-voted for this but one line caught my eye; >> Anything they would write, we in the FOSS world could clone better; I feel this sentiment d

I expect to get down-voted for this but one line caught my eye; >> Anything they would write, we in the FOSS world could clone better; I feel this sentiment does (and frankly has always) misunderstood what "better" means. From a pure software perspective there are very few (genuinely) open source apps which are better than the commercial alternatives. Yes Linux server, yes if you count Chrome (which us really just commercial distributed for free), but the list is short. Postures is on par, there are a few others that are on par, but "better" is a tough call. When you go beyond the root software though, it rapidly does not fare as well. Documentation. UI. Ease of use. These are all areas which have not kept up. Best we don't discuss marketing. I get that commercial software has other issues (advertising etc) but the attention paid to the ancillaries is usually much higher. Perhaps OSS would be better served by not "cloning commercial" but rather building new innovative things that change the landscape. (Kinda like OpenSSL has done.