The real reason most source is closed? Open is hard
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Matt Asay argues that most source is closed because open source is hard: "I've been relearning this lesson lately as I've helped advise a senior IT executive at a Fortune 500 company. His team dearly wants to open-source some promising code it has developed, code that serves a need within his own large enterprise but could be of significant value to a wide array of enterprises."