The world doesn't revolve around commercialism good sir.

Indeed I would posit that we would be far less advanced were it not for licenses like the GPL. (You certainly wouldn't have the N900 in your hands right now without open source) The environment I think has become a very healthy one in the last decade. I wouldn't want it to be any different.

In a very huge way Linux and various Unix derivatives are the backbone of the commercial world, likely they will continue to be that way for decades to come. Your basic LAMP stack is, essentially, fully open. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone willing to take you seriously if you were to suggest that such a setup was inferior to commercial alternatives.

Besides, outside of PHB circles, words like 'superior' simply don't matter in the business world - the best tool for the job does. If that happens to be open or closed it makes no difference. As an end user I'm going to pick the most affordable solution for whatever problem it is I face. Sometimes that means I pony up a couple of grand to Adobe, other times I hit the torrents for the latest Linux distro, maybe I open up a few terminals and craft together a solution using vi.

I don't think you can get the GPL Genie back in the bottle.