[NegativeK]

As mentioned in the article: something like 80% of the code shipped is open source, due to developers doing the reasonable thing and including OSS libraries.

Companies can't just walk away from 80%. And if there's liability, rip and replace becomes rip, replace, and still fix issues -- versus just leaving out the rip and replace steps.

[ctrw]

They can and they will because they did it once moving to open source in the first place.