No, it is not an incentive. As I cannot publish my full stack of software, GPL code is just no option for me. And why am I not "advancing the profession" if I o

No, it is not an incentive. As I cannot publish my full stack of software, GPL code is just no option for me. And why am I not "advancing the profession" if I open source as much of my code as I can? But for the license technical reasons not as GPL, but rather BSD? Your last wish of "start making their own transistors" is really funny in the context, that some of my proprietary code is actually for making transistors.