You make some excellent points....
Thanks. I guess I'm an old fart, software-wise. I was writing software for years before Bill Gates whined about hobbyists who were making improvements on his BASIC by making copies and porting it to their homebrew systems -- just like everybody did with every other piece of software in existence at the time. I remember that it was Bill Gates who invented commercial "closed-source".
And I'm still writing software. So I take the long view. And I see parallels to politics and government.
In the long run, it's better for all, to strike a balance between sharing and greed. Microsoft is learning they need to temper their greed with a little sharing. Cool.