Comment by cwyers

I'm not sure about "a large company/organization that dedicates its resources to an open-source product" being the best of both worlds. I mean, maybe narrowly defined, sure. But take one of the better examples of the form, Chrome/Chromium. I'm not sure that a world where we get a free web browser that is used to funnel us all into an ad-driven model powered by an incredible surveillance apparatus is strictly better than a world where we all have to buy our web browsers. There's tradeoffs all the way down. Open source coexists well with some revenue models and doesn't with others, and the revenue models that best coexist with open source have some very significant downsides in terms of how they don't align the interests of the business with that of its users.