[i_cant_speel]

Agreed.

I believe technology as a whole is light-years ahead of where it would be if companies treated all of their findings and system designs as closely-guarded secrets. I am relatively early in my career and I get to open-source a project that I have been working on for the first time and it feels great.

[um_ya]

Just imagine how far ahead the other industries would be if we handled patent and trademark law like we do in the software industry.