A popular practice is popular because of business incentives? Well, no shit. Everything in the status quo is there for a reason. If there wasn't incentive to

A popular practice is popular because of business incentives? Well, no shit. Everything in the status quo is there for a reason. If there wasn't incentive to do things, nobody would do it or it'd be easy to kill. The point of organizations like the EFF is to not give up the importance of externalities as soon as someone offers a rationalization that the internalities are nice.