It's funny, its almost like hes saying that everything, games, software, that are built on directx, and wmp, and xp is going to fail because its not open source.
SD won't fail because, peeople love things that are done for them right out of the box. It's all about convenience, hence one of the reasons people come to the carpc scene, to build a carpc so its more convenient for them to access their movies, music, and nav at somewhat a reasonable price. Given their certain situation there have been complaints about support but thats for another thread. SD will fail to the people that love open source because they can't tweak it because it's not open source and configure it in a crazy way and get it to do things that SD can't currently do, or say they can do but really can't, again another post on the forums.