[BenParizek]

This may be a bit hard to test so I ask this more out of curiosity:

Do you feel there is more stability for businesses that have a stake in supporting popular open source projects than businesses that have proprietary software products?

Alternatively, do you feel that the number of abandoned or failed open source projects have a significant distinction from the number of abandoned or failed proprietary software projects?

I'd love to see some research on the topic, as while the classification of something being open source or not opens source has legal implications as to how it can be used and the type of community it attracts, does it really make a meaningful contribution to whether the group of projects or companies involved succeed or fail?