> Love jQuery. Hate monopolies.

What's the meeaning of the word "monopoly" in a situation where breaking the monopoly means switching to another library? A library which, by the way, won't exist unless someone sees significant enough failings in the existing one to create an alternative, from scratch or through a fork.

Barrier to entry is the property which enables abusive monopolies, and in the open source world, is there such a thing?