I think my point is a bit different. Consider this: There are many areas where corporations have no interest in building a FOSS product. One such area is CAD, a

I think my point is a bit different. Consider this: There are many areas where corporations have no interest in building a FOSS product. One such area is CAD, another is word processing. And what do we see? GPL projects abound. None of them are successful, true, which could be seen to agree with (a perspective of) the author's point. The difference is, the author is saying that the license doesn't matter no matter what which just ignores the reality that corporate sponsorships dominate the equation.