Releasing proprietary software behind a walled garden is not exactly a celebratory-worthy achievement, even Oracle and Apple can obtain this kind of achievement.
Because, I'd say, if the software is good, and fits its users needs, then "releasing proprietary software behind a walled garden" is totally celebratory-worthy too.
Releasing something for the public good, open source, open for all to use is an entirely different, more applaudable action.
You don't get browny points for being baiting your traps. Even if it's fancy cheese.
It's weird that you think these two marks cannot both be hit in one stroke.
A turd of a software, even if libre, is still a turd. I won't celebrate it just because someone offers it for free.
I'm not talking in general: there's excellent libre software, and excellent proprietary software too.
But there's specific libre software that's just plain crap for most use cases compared to its proprietary alternative (e.g consider a high-end DAW and the libre DAWs. Or a high-end NLE and the libre NLEs).
And some other libre software is mighty fine in itself, but lacks other characteristics that some proprietary software has (from 24/7 paid on the phone support, to quality documentation, to working with your preffered OS or your other infrastructure, etc). So some people can make good use of it, while for others it's not suitable.
I was there in past decades. We're better off than ever, both with regard to accessibility and pricing of proprietary software and with regard to abundance of libre software.
- 1PB for assets
- 10TB for database