lets start with Windows
It has been abandoned & reinvented many times (next version will hopefully will be a better one), so when you put Windows is the same company but not the same software.
Now mac OS, it was abandoned at 9.3 before switching to unix. Because that solid fundation it will be here, unchanged at the core, 15 years from now, same as Linux, same as FreeBSD. I wont elaborate on the remaining of your list, actually & use QuarkXPRESS, Adobe wares, FileMaker & I hope they will remain viable in the future.
Now lets see FOSS:
- Unix
- Apache
- PostgreSQL
- Libreoffice
- TCP/IP, DNS, Python, PHP, Javascript, HTML/CSS, the very foundations of internet. Nobody will buy that; is open & free
- Postfix, Squirrelmail
- many, many others...
In fact, if commercial software disappears sudendly it will be a disruption to many; for me, I will keep computing as usual, I will regret Adobe, FileMaker can be replaced. Now if FLOSS disappears, it will stop the world: no more internet, no more unix/linux, no more routers, no more banking, etc.
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