[BaronVonSteuben]

Perhaps I'm overthinking this, but open source malware is absolutely not new. It's been around basically as long as the internet has (and I mean pre-www). You could even argue that it pre-exists the internet since phone phreakers were sharing "code" earlier than that.

[DeathArrow]

That's true that malware source code was available in the open even before large scale Internet access. But no one made a fuss about licensing, "freedom", philosophy and the authors were mostly unknown.