In this sense, we live in a giant laser printer, and are all RMS: lacking source code makes it ridiculously hard for us to function in the face of product disco

In this sense, we live in a giant laser printer, and are all RMS: lacking source code makes it ridiculously hard for us to function in the face of product discontinuation. Thought balloon: should companies be legally forced to escrow their source code with the government, so that the public is left less in the lurch?