I don't expect to be able to walk into a restaurant and see recipes listed alongside the menu items. Nor would I expect the restaurants to disclose that recipe if I really liked it because I could go home and make it myself instead of paying for it. That doesn't make very good business sense. The only real arguments for going open source across the board is to avoid annoyance on the part of the consumers and developers. Hard-core open-source proponents tend to err on the utopian side and conveniently overlook practicality and the very thing that generates their paychecks: business.
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I don't expect to be able to walk into a restaurant and see recipes listed alongside the menu items. Nor would I expect the restaurants to disclose that recipe if I really liked it because I could go home and make it myself instead of paying for it. That doesn't make very good business sense. The only real arguments for going open source across the board is to avoid annoyance on the part of the consumers and developers. Hard-core open-source proponents tend to err on the utopian side and conveniently overlook practicality and the very thing that generates their paychecks: business.