Knowing old experiences is a good way to see that it would happen:
<snip> In 1987, three years after the success of NFS, Sun lost the war to define the standard graphics interface for the next generation. The winner, the X Window System, was technically inferior to Sun's NeWS offering. But X had one critical advantage; it was open source. Ten years later in 1997, when Bill Joy came to a Linux conference to push Jini as a universal network-service protocol, we in the open-source community told him straight up "You can have ubiquity or you can have control. Pick one." He picked control, and Jini failed in its promise. The contrast with NFS could hardly be more stark. </snip> Source: http://linuxtoday.com/it_management/2004021600226OPSWDV
Microsoft fought and lost against Apache httpd. I think there are a lot of examples that could support this point irrespective of licensing.
<snip> Using the GPL will require that all the released improved versions be free software. This means you can avoid the risk of having to compete with a proprietary modified version of your own work. </snip> Source: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhyUseGPL
I believe your earlier point was that open source will always win out over proprietary. So GPL when we don't have to worry about a proprietary fork?
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