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>The classic business model of selling IP doesn't work anymore, but there are other models out there. Mozilla being one of them.

And iOS will be killed by Android anytime now. Right?

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I'm not saying that, that quote is out of context. I was referring to the classic business model as applied to open source, not in general. As long as there is forced scarcity (FARTS--Forced ARTificial Scarcity) in software, there'll be people making money on it.

Forced scarcity as in tying Windows 7 to a license and OS X to a Mac device that you need to buy?

If "forced scarcity" as you call it is eliminated, the first copy of software, songs, movies, will cost a few billion dollars and the rest will be free. After all, it costs real money to feed the designers and coders.

I'm not saying that forced scarcity is a bad thing. What I'm trying to say is that, if you take a project/business open source, forced scarcity is no longer a viable strategy (you know, the whole free as in freedom not as in beer thing). There are other strategies, like dual licensing (Trolltech [before nokia]), or consulting (Red Hat), or even (yes) Mozilla with their cross agreements.

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