Hello @Evans. :-)  Unfortunately you and me are at the opposite of the camps. Am a sword for propreitary ( self pro-claimed, no official backing, total believer that propreitary is the only solution ) and you are on the other side.   :-))

 

Consider this, that image of the vault would probably be at every brewery and winery. I'd love to know how KBL or others protect their recipes while wine is even more complicated e.g maturity time. How does KBL rotate its core staff so no one single person knows the exact formula? Very interesting...  I can aslo see those who code open source drinking, eating and buying propreitary goods all the time. Even worse would be open source going out to enjoy a good day of coding over a bottle of beer or wine they know is as propreitary as the glass they drink in.

 

In the followup to the posting to @Dennis, I wonder how Open Source is dealing with North Korea, Iran and others the west consider not good. Is Open Source defeating its core values of free-code to certain countries? I wonder, and some interest here too to research.

 

Some thots.

 

Rgds.