Room for both Open and Closed Source?

Stuart Cohen writes that the Open Source Model is Broken, and I think a bigger point perhaps needs to be highlighted. Open source software can be great, it can have a wonderful function and it can make life better. But not everything needs to be or should be open source. I read a Wikipedia article that listed “not open source” as a con for a particular piece of software. This type of bias, aside from being a reason to further dislike Wikipedia, is also a symptom of the bigger OS issue. OS Zealots want to force the concept on everyone, feel that any software that doesn’t release its source is an abomination.

When times are good, it’s easy for business models to prosper. If tougher times are actually ahead, I think we will see movement in the open source arena, and os may not find itself flourishing as it has recently. Or perhaps time will prove me wrong.