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The conclusion is simply not backed by reality. There are certainly realms where open source has supplanted proprietary counterparts and they all mostly fall under infrastructure type software.

We all use these infrastructure open source software products because they serve needs that practically anyone doing technology work will find themselves to have.

The larger universe of commercial software is HUGE and most of it is proprietary and will remain that way.

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The irony of open source is that its biggest success is closed-source web apps, which, since your data is now hosted in the cloud, means you've lost the one thing you actually had control over, your data. And you still don't have the source code.

I'd agree with you, the conclusions in this article are wildly optimistic and not backed by reality. While I'm happy there is more open source stuff, I also see no substantive change in proprietary software in the near future either.

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