> So it's a concern about IP protection for them. For that kind of product, source code is not actually that valuable in itself; it's the standards compliance,

> So it's a concern about IP protection for them. For that kind of product, source code is not actually that valuable in itself; it's the standards compliance, reliability and trustworthiness. Most charitable explanation is that the vendor is clueless about what their value really is, least charitable is that they know exactly how fucked up their code is.