By Matt Asay (CNET Blogs)
My own biggest failed prediction actually predates 2008, but it took me all of this year to understand just how wrong I had been (or, at least, to admit it). I talked about "burning the boats" back in 2006, by which I meant that the only way forward with open-source models is to cut one's ties to past security (license lock-in, proprietary software, etc.). But I was wrong. Or, at least, I wasn't astute enough to recognize that the lock-in battle would simply shift to hosted applications, data, etc.

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