Open Source Snag
There is one thing I'm figuring out about open source software. I work in Linux every day. It is an ope source operating system. That means if you want to know some real nittie-gritty fact about the very bowls of the kernel, you can, with the right skill, go look it up. That sounds like a great thing. If you are a software developer you can dig and dig and figure out how to get some of the most amazing things done without dragging others into your web. This has some bad sides. Foe example, let's say you are on a development team. You have to tie into someone else software to get your project to work. If they are open source you may or may not  call them up. You will download their source and documentation and try to figure things out for yourself, just because that is how the real geeks do it. If they are closed source, you are forced to talk to them. You are forced to ask them very nicely and possibly pay them to put a feature in their software to help your project.
Closed source has a lot of down sides, but the one side is that it forces communication between projects. I'm noticing the lack of said communication on the net. Now that so many standards are out there programmers are not talking to each other.
It is sad.