>You can make the argument that it's too financially expensive for most companies to make their devices more modifiable, but that same argument cannot explain w

>You can make the argument that it's too financially expensive for most companies to make their devices more modifiable, but that same argument cannot explain why people are banned, by risk of government punishment, from decrypting their programs, which would be the first step to investigation. Because they're shortsighted and afraid, in short. Legacy companies feel that control is crucial. But GPL and other Copyleft software requires you to make the code modifiable. That's an expense most companies don't want to take on. Hence, companies avoid GPL.