I long ago joke that closed source software and hardware should probably be illegal. The joke seems to age well. You can still have your walled garden and impri

I long ago joke that closed source software and hardware should probably be illegal. The joke seems to age well. You can still have your walled garden and imprison your customers as long as you offer enough value. Owning their data is a contradiction in terms. If you make the design and the code available any spying would have to be written into law, formally announced and strictly defined. If you want to be stubborn about it you can design it in a way that doesn't allow it. If enough others are using the protocol you can hardly be blamed for creating it.