no, i don't assume that we would have been using dead/dated tech. There probably would have been new tech, but much less of it. Open source lowered threshold for developing new solutions, both boxed and *aaS. I worked in a bunch of startups, mostly in network and security areas. Without open source most of them wouldn't have been possible or not viable

> we can take a look at wider benefit to society at whole.

my point is that no, we didn't.