open source != freeware

i am doing my summer project on the topic of 'Open Innovation'. that brings me in touch with a lot of stuff like 'open source', 'freeware', 'outsourcing', 'core-competencies', 'creative commons' etc etc

wanted to hammer out my views on the following somewhere:

-->open source is a nice concept, but a concept which cannot be really copied in any other industry (products more so).

--> freeware is either:

-> an idea whose time never was, and is of the nobodies, by the idiots, for the selfish.

{{Obviously I use freewares. Why not use a freebee when somebody is throwing it like that? (ok, wont call them idiots probably..)}}

->or A cunning business strategy, next only to companies which allow piracy initially to gain mass markets later, because nobody can really go back.

-->IP regime (patents, trademarks, copyrights) rocks.