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@mangeurdenuage @SuperDicq I don't think Apple and Nvidia, the world's two largest companies by capitalization, are embarrassed by asking for money for their products. Which are combinations of their own hardware plus their own proprietary software.

Not going to say Apple's is good although for me their smart phones are the least worst to have, but Nvidia is where it is due to two decades and billions of dollars of patient investing in their software. I submit you're not going to see that sort of thing in FOSS for the foreseeable future.

Nvidia's near monopoly also wasn't set in stone, it's pretty unique in being good at both hardware and software, where AMD and Intel for example are notoriously badly managed ... in general. Not just software, but AMD is notably worse at that. In both cases, a general inability to decide on one good approach and then stick to it for the time required.

FOSS counterexamples?

Obviously Linux to start with, with even more decades of investment, albeit with its own secret proprietary sauce of no fixed device driver ABI, which also makes one of its biggest pain points, routine driver rot. But that prevents others from forking just the set of drivers.

Multi-target compilers are owned by GCC and LLVM. Chromium is quasi-FOSS. Emacs is the best (programmer's) text editor, and there's also Vim for those who like the modal style. Pretty sure sound and video codecs are also largely owned by FOSS.