It's a good wake-up call to how open source software almost never succeeds in the real world. And when open source does have some modicum of success, it is riddled with bugs and flaws and security holes (e.g. Android). It makes me realize that Bitcoin will probably never reach mainstream success.

It takes a for-profit corporation to take open source software and turn it into something proprietary that works for the mainstream (like how Apple took Gecko/KHTML and turned it into Safari).