Dana Blankenhorn has another interesting ZDNet BLOG article about FLOSS. He talks about how there is a myth that FLOSS relies on unemployed workers. He doesn't go as far I normally do which is to point out that while vendor-controlled (AKA: proprietary, "software manufacturing", etc) software only harnesses specialized private sector vendors, FLOSS harnesses all aspects of the economy (public, volunteer, education, both traditional private sector users and producers, etc) as participants in creating and improving FLOSS.
While the vendor-controlled software vendors dominated for a short period in our history, it is inevitable that competitive vendor neutral software will dominate again.