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The IP helped the Internet to establish. But once established we see trends to try to limit the very technology into propriety. Think of the Facebook internet access schemes that tried to make everything go through facebook. Think of the attempts to make priviledged and throttled websites based on what the ISP likes...
When Podcasts were new, the open standard was embraced, but now we see attempts to make them exclusive too. Just that they didn't prevail yet.
You're right that they've tried to do this and it's ugly. But they've only been able to do it in places where they didn't have to compete with an existing service, so I would argue that it's successful only in a vacuum.
There are a lot of very successful businesses based around open source software. Open models are perfectly functional in the present. Their potential for success isn't some relic of past idealism.
Unpopular opinion: The open core model is underutilized.