With source code the major economic benefit is understanding and being able to modify that code, less so the code itself. Source code available on pirate bay i

With source code the major economic benefit is understanding and being able to modify that code, less so the code itself. Source code available on pirate bay is useless unless someone spends a lot of time / money on figuring out how it works. This is why people can write in scripting languages without worrying about the "openness" of the source.