> "I think it succeeded wildly beyond anything anybody imagined at the time..." Somebody needs their memory refreshed. What was imagined at the time is that n

> "I think it succeeded wildly beyond anything anybody imagined at the time..." Somebody needs their memory refreshed. What was imagined at the time is that nearly all proprietary software companies, particularly Microsoft, would have gone bankrupt or bowed to the inevitable necessity to release all their source code to the community under capital-F Free licenses and nearly all businesses that use software would be voluntarily contributing any code developed for their own use to the community also under Free licenses so that their code would help others and others' code would help them. Needless to say, this has not happened. Instead, FOSS turned out to be an enormous free handout to businesses with very little contribution back to the community compared to the value received. (Yes, even the Linux kernel. If there were contributions to Linux by all businesses that use it that were even a tenth of what Microsoft charges for Windows, there would be a thousand full time kernel developers.) That is failure and developers are recognizing that by turning away from Free licenses to fake FOSS licenses like open core or shared source.