And to add, many companies are going from open source back to proprietary licenses explicitly due to being unable to compete with closed companies like Amazon. Elastic, Sentry, and Docker come to mind. So any discussion of the super/inferiority of open source should include this phenomenon too.

> Open source is not an economic system in the sense in which this term is generally used.

We should move to a society where we look at software engineers as we look at road builders. City workers build roads, the people use those roads. Likewise, engineers build software, the people use said software. Our current system of (c)opywrong is bizarre and unnatural.

> "Superior" by which metric?

Well, I'm responding to your comment using an open source operating system running an open source web browser on an open source platform and you will likely read it on the same. I still use a handful of closed source products (Sublime Text comes to mind) but that's the exception, rather than the rule. This is vastly different from 25 years ago.

In the long run, licenses are for losers.