>The fact that a given closed tech is winning does in fact support my argument: open wins, eventually.

Huh? I fail to see the logic behind this.

>And the fact that protocols and standards prevail is precisely because they need to be open to become protocols and standards.

Well, yes, but that doesn't say much about other levels of the stack, like applications. And besides, we've had lots of succesful proprietary but de-facto standards too, from the .doc format to .mp3 (patent encumpered), to GIF and h264.