[pmichaud]

Of course it doesn't! He touched on the reason -- the way your product works is not a business. If a car manufacturer open sourced all of its data -- everything about the car, everything about the equipment they use to build the car, etc, then nothing would happen. A competitor might co-opt some of that information to improve their business, but no one who would have purchased a car from them would use the information to build a car themselves.

I know the analogy isn't perfect because of hardware overhead and whatever, but it basically holds -- the customers who spend money have only a tiny overlap with customers who want to install and change your code.