Let's be honest, if they open sourced it, even if it was a restricted form of open sourcing, it would spawn a kazillion of forks, some of them bad forks for fra

Let's be honest, if they open sourced it, even if it was a restricted form of open sourcing, it would spawn a kazillion of forks, some of them bad forks for fraudulent practices for piracy and the profits will plummet. Occam's razor. Don't overthink it, it's just more profitable that way and the probability of open sourcing it making it more profitable is very minuscule in practice.