Manufacturers and designers will naturally optimise their products (for energy, flops, features, time to market and/or cost) in order to gain an edge over their

Manufacturers and designers will naturally optimise their products (for energy, flops, features, time to market and/or cost) in order to gain an edge over their competitors. Thier requires them to either patent, license, or otherwise obfuscate their designs. This isn’t a conspiracy - going full open source is very rarely cost effective or commercially viable. A vast proportion of products and features would never have come to being in a world that was wholly funded by goodwill.