Actually I think it's the other way around: Institutions benefited enormously from open source software. They saw the chance to get rid of proprietary systems a

Actually I think it's the other way around: Institutions benefited enormously from open source software. They saw the chance to get rid of proprietary systems and use the force of the community and they took it because it was PROFITABLE for them to do so! Why did IBM, Google, etc. Choose Linux as a platform? Out of courtesy? :-)