If you have a platform that has committed users, you have the eyeballs. And your talking about an audience th can be orders of magnitude larger with open source because it's so easy to adopt. Developers are cheap and they're lazy, and they want to get things done as fast as possible. Open source really plays to those er sort of character traits of the average develop frankly. It almost is, in a way, like an advanced form of governance....
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