Some critics argue that OSS is anti-capitalistic and decreases the ability for commercial software companies to make money[73,74], however OSS has certainly not decreased the amount of technical innovation, or the amount of commercial capitalization of that innovation with regards to the WWW. The phenomenal commercial growth around the internet is all based on OSS[75]--servers: CERN Httpd and Apache; clients: NCSA Mosaic and Mozilla; protocols: SMTP, FTP, and HTTP; and services: BIND and Sendmail. Because the underlying protocols of the Internet were open, and because there were freely available reference implementations for both servers and clients, anyone who wanted to could and did explore the WWW and the Internet, creating a wealth of new applications and economic growth.
When easy access to an increasing technological base exists, you find more, not less, innovation as developers and scientists spend less of their time re-creating functionality.