[xtractinator]

>>I sympathise with the sentiment expressed but must point out that there is no market force that prefers un-established open products to established walled gardens save for a fraction of hackers' tastes and preferences.

Oh, yes there is, it's called change.

[JumpCrisscross]

The point isn't that established players are immortal. It is that the role of open v closed in that usurpation process is negligible.

Closed systems overturn open systems just as much as the other way around (or closed v closed or open v open). Very few people outside hacker culture care whether what they use is open or closed.