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Open-source is a failed model for commercial success.

If "time to $2bn revenue" is your measure of success then 99.99% of software companies haven't made it, so presumably the entire industry has failed.

Another way to look at it is that proprietary software vendors drain massive amounts of money out of the world, far in excess of the value they generate.

Huh, why is that? Corporations don't like spending money just for the hell of it.

Lock in, and the power of a government-granted monopoly.

But advance server didn't come out until 2002 when they started the charge model.

Also Facebook is a complete driven market of selling idiots person information and advertising.

Fast growth is not the same thing ad success, slow growth does not mean failure.

We live in a weird world where making $2B counts as a failure because somebody else did it faster than you?