This article responds to commentaries on the author's opening article in this issue, "Disruptive Innovation and Technology Enhanced Learning" (EJ1288163). Herein, Michael Flavin begins by discussing arguments for and against Uber and Wikipedia as disruptive innovations. He addresses commentaries in this issue by Michael Raynor, Terry Anderson, Jeremy Knox, Tom Clark, and Ann Devitt. He concludes that disruptive innovation is a useful theory for understanding why some technologies succeed in higher education and some fail. The theory is further useful for analysing current developments in monetised higher education systems, increasingly permeated by the language and practices of large corporations.