Their hardware isn't "forever" though. The industry they cater to and the consumers that industry serves are constantly demanding higher resolutions, higher fra

Their hardware isn't "forever" though. The industry they cater to and the consumers that industry serves are constantly demanding higher resolutions, higher frame rates, more quality, and at the industry level, the ability to process the vast amount of data that generates in a workable way. BMD aren't in the business of supporting cameras or video recorders that are 20+ years behind the times, they're in the business of delivering higher-performance equipment that improves on a "Moore's Law" type trajectory. Resolve is a tool they use to help manage this hardware process. Open-Sourcing their Intellectual Property and investment where Resolve is concerned wouldn't confer much benefit, other than catering to a microscopic niche of people such as yourself who have the time and patience to make changes in a highly complex codebase. Businesses don't owe it to you to make their hardware "forever". You could equally be trying to make a case for demanding the VHDL that runs their FPGAs open source, which would no doubt be lovely while being commercially damaging, and harming their ability to pay the high wages of competent and focussed engineers that bring you such complex products at a price you can afford. P.S. Your text files will work better than your LaTex files in 50 years.