Has open source won--or has it lost?
Assessing the Open Source scorecard is complicated. A complete "state of Open Source" would fill many pages. But here are a few things that have struck me over the past year or two.
Large swaths of Open Source have become mainstream--to the point of invisibility. Jay Lyman summed this up well in the context of the last LinuxWorld. We've also seen large vendors, such as HP and IBM, generally de-emphasizing Linux and Open Source as businesses in their own right. Just to be clear, invisible is absolutely not the same thing as irrelevant. However, some Open Source fans who feel the need to ally themselves with a highly visible movement taking on "the enemy" find this shift troubling. (See, for example, "Mike's" comment to the aforementioned blog post.)
Pure play Open Source as a standalone business has largely proven to be marginal.
The Linux desktop remains a niche.
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