I don't think this article proves it's thesis. It claims FOSS isn't winning because it's stuck in the hackers for hackers mindset. But the two big examples it

I don't think this article proves it's thesis. It claims FOSS isn't winning because it's stuck in the hackers for hackers mindset. But the two big examples it gives for FOSS not winning are Firefox vs. Chrome and the Linux desktop. But Firefox and Chrome are more or less the same product. The reason Chrome won is because it is faster. The difference is smaller now, but for a long time it was significantly faster, and that trained a lot of people to automatically install Chrome. The Linux desktop is a different discussion. But even here, it's mostly a network effect. If you put a layman in front of a fresh Linux Mint install, and in front of a fresh Windows install, I don't think they'd have much of a problem with Mint. But most laymen aren't laymen, they're Windows power users, to a certain extent, because that's what they've been using their whole life. So I don't see how having a less hacker-for-hacker mindset could help either of these fights.