It's unfortunately like this with quite a bit of our technology that emerges from the for profit landscape. Companies work hard to guard and legally build a mot

It's unfortunately like this with quite a bit of our technology that emerges from the for profit landscape. Companies work hard to guard and legally build a mote around what could be even more valuable technology if proliferated to more thinkers and problem solvers, because that's more profitable to a small segment of investors in the near term. It doesn't matter if its even more beneficial to our world as a whole to let that idea loose, if it means putting a personal cash cow at risk. It also leads to overall ossified process. It really seems that we can't get anything done as a society unless we've greatly incentivized an opportunity for a lucky few to profit. Sure, we are great at delivering new cellphones across the globe and turning that into enormous profits for shareholders, but not really effective at the things that actually matter, like getting a hold of our emissions so they don't reshape our environment faster than we can adapt to it, or protecting genetic diversity among species that is necessary for adaptation and the emergence of traits that we could all benefit from. To those working on closed source software: fight for it to be opened. Share the knowledge you've painstakingly gained, leave the ladder down behind you, do humanity a service by leaving behind your notes. You will find that its even easier to prove your worth as an engineer for new opportunities if you can point to the very commits you've pushed to the public source code.