> Rather, businesses need to take a step back, understand the culture and priorities of open source and then try to fit in.

Well, open source was created in order to make (some of) the ideas of the hippy free software movement more acceptable to businesses, so, I think you got that part backwards.

At the cost of losing the free software ideals, open source has gone mainstream, and nowadays a large fraction of the work that goes into big established open source projects is done by paid developers working for corporations. Thus, to a very large extent, open source IS businesses. They are making it in their image, to fit their needs.

I guess the lone hacker/activist has been sidelined, and others with more resources have taken over the show.