[Mbwagava]

Why haven't people bludgeoned them into opening their software if its so useful? This is inevitable; in fact you could measure the long-term efficiency of an industry by how quickly this happens. Movie studios are famously bad at spending money (yes there are exceptions, but they can be counted on one hand).

[dcrazy]

Because most people are much more concerned about doing their jobs than having access to source code they aren’t going to look at, much less modify.