Yeah, it's one of the things we were talking about over at my site. In fact, I wrote an article on it that the future of open source is corporately controlled distros. Of course, that was only looking at the Linux side of things. There will be a lot of mainstream apps that will become corporately controlled as well. It's a rather odd catch22. You can't be mainstream without mainstream power. IE, a corporation or powerful foundation behind you.

It's like the space shuttle. It is big, powerful, and looks cool, but without the big booster engines, she's not getting off the pad. Needing that kinda power is somewhat the fault of Microsoft and other big software and tech companies. They raised the bar so high that only companies with lots of money can go mainstream anymore. And the corporate world is doing all they can to reinforce that, keeping the bar as high as possible to lock out all the little upstarts who want to come in and play on their ball field.