>  Another advantage is that OSS is often developed by several independent
> parties which are not driving their own personal gain with the project,
> something that is the rule with proprietary commercial software.

I'd disagree with that, in fact it's almost the opposite.  IME OSS seems to 
be driven by individual developers doing whatever they feel like doing 
whenever they feel like it, they have no requirement to implement certain 
features or to be ready by a certain date.

> OSS is
> user-oriented, doing what benefits the users the most.

You really think so?  Even with our own POV it seems that developers just 
work on parts of the code almost randomly without really much input from the 
users.  One day there will be a "oh I though about doing X and it turned out 
pretty well" post, there are never any "hey i've got some time to work on 
POV, what would you like to see" type posts.

> The primary goal
> of proprietary software is to benefit the company the most. In some cases
> this means putting features and restrictions which benefit the company at
> the cost of the users. This is the more likely the more of a monopoly
> status the company has. (Think of draconian DRM measures, for instance.
> Users don't want nor benefit from DRM,

Users benefit from DRM by getting the same product for cheaper, it's just 
most don't realise this.

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