[coldtea]

>Free software won. Yay!

Sorry, but it didn't. Not the way we wanted it to, back in 1999.

It just won companies who use it on their servers or as a lower level component of their value added offerings (from Android phones and iOS -Mach, BSD etc-, to set top boxes).

And the main things those companies care for is that it's free (as in beer) and free (as in "lots of volunteers help improve their software they then wrap and sell as part of their commercial products for free").

But FOOS didn't won the consumers and end users -- those could not care less whether their Android device is based on FOSS Linux or not.

Besides, it's mostly closed/proprietary mobile apps they buy and use on it day in, day out. Plus closed (silo-ed) web services.