The last sentence of the original post could very well be the most sarcastic post on the internet, if it was intended so.

I really should start including the tags, shouldn't I?

Yeah (sorry for down-voting you) - there are so many anti-propreitary rantings around here that it's hard to separate out the sarcastic people who acknowledge the objective reality from the standard propreitary always == bad!!!! kool-aid drinkers.

Odd choice of comparison. I think linux has owned ms and apple on the server side. mysql is the dominant db for web apps, etc.

If your metric of success is a company that makes money you are ignoring a large part of the world.

Just depends on how you define "success" (although I think being acquired and gutted by Oracle is outside anyone's definition).