@brainsmoke @gsuberland Because if it's not a goal it will never be a means. It it never would have been either. It was really hard work to steer the corporate world into accepting open source. It's a constant battle still, even after it's proven itself countless times.
Someone has to be out there fighting the tendency to lock it all up or it will be. Your work will be stolen and locked up in broken ass shit you can't fix. This is even a VC strategy right now that would only get way worse.