Yes, if you try to see things from their perspective, regarding how they have been treated over the centuries, it makes sense. Regarding closed source -- my w

Yes, if you try to see things from their perspective, regarding how they have been treated over the centuries, it makes sense. Regarding closed source -- my wife is teaching a class on indigenous intellectual property in the iSchool at Univ of Washington right now, and it is mostly about protecting traditional knowledge from exploitation. A lot of what she says and her perspectives takes me a while to process, since I'm a big open source software advocate (e.g., I founded SageMath).