@druid @sampo @hj I don't think foss wins by comparing it to the industry at day1, yet a lot of foss advocates try hard at day1.

Although VLC sweeped out QuickTime/RealPlayer/WindowsMediaPlayer/… pretty quickly. And funnily I wouldn't say VLC has a good UI, like discoverability of features is pretty bad. Almost feels like competition just didn't want to actually compete and just gave up.

But to me foss is something that wins out in the long run, specially against VC-funded software that will eventually go to shit due to investors or acquisitions.
Sadly software maintenance isn't easy, like imagine if VLC couldn't support newer codecs even with a slight workaround like with plugins.

And sometimes it's in a loosing battle, like yt-dlp and NewPipe are in, but it's a needed one until a real alternative shows up (peertube by itself isn't, similarly owncloud is cool but it's too DIY for most, …).